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

> 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.

E.