processor farm
<computer, parallel> A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or
"farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and
results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for
applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the
canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be
efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the
time spent processing each task.
(2001-05-28)
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