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From: Andrew Dalke <dalke@bioreason.com>
Organization: Bioreason, Inc.
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Subject: Re: a design question
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:47:21 -0600
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John Galambos <jdg@ornl.gov> said:
> This made recovery easier if a machine crashed. Also, my "function
> evaluator processors" that were running in parallel were pretty big,
> and used too much memory to put a bunch at once on a single node.

You also get better load balancing by sending new tasks off to
machines which just returned data.  If you send everything in
a single shot, you loose that ability.

						Andrew
						dalke@acm.org