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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
Virtual Shared Memory
Different parts of the data can reside on different processors.
Looks like one single global memory space to component processes.
Linda's Virtual Shared Memory is known as tuple space
Can be used to implement many different types of algorithms
Lends itself well to master/worker distributed data structure algorithms

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