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Foil 101 The Linda Model

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Virtual Shared Memory
2 Different parts of the data can reside on different processors.
3 Looks like one single global memory space to component processes.
4 Linda's Virtual Shared Memory is known as tuple space
5 Can be used to implement many different types of algorithms
6 Lends itself well to master/worker distributed data structure algorithms
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