Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

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

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