AW: AW: [Caml-list] Distributed computing libraries

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am 06.06.2012 20:16:51 schrieb(en) Edgar Friendly:
>> So far I know, all the other libraries base on multi-processing to  
>> run
>> programs on multiple cores. Plasma is the only one with true
>> distribution capabiltiies beyond a single computer, but the price is
>> that you must use the map/reduce scheme, whereas functory or parmap
>> leave you more freedom.
> 
> Functory is able to run across a network, with clients listening for  
> connections from the master to give them work to do.  It is  
> restricted to a variant of map/reduce, so it doesn't give you that  
> much freedom.

Thanks for correcting me.

As you know Functory a bit better: how is the data delivered to network  
clients? Just via the network connection that also assigns the work to  
do? That would be a bit lame, and not really useful.

Gerd


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