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Foil 102 Master/Worker Model using Virtual Shared Memory

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 Task and workers are independent of each other
2 Master divides work into discrete tasks and puts into global space
3 Workers repeatedly retrieve tasks and put results back into global space
4 Workers notified of work completion by having met some condition, receiving an end-signal or terminated by some other means
5 Master gathers results from global space
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