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Mastering Cloud Computing
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Mastering Cloud Computing

by Rajkumar Buyya, Christian Vecchiola, S.Thamarai Selvi
April 2013
Beginner to intermediate
468 pages
15h 57m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 7

High-Throughput Computing

Task Programming

Task computing is a wide area of distributed system programming encompassing several different models of architecting distributed applications, which, eventually, are based on the same fundamental abstraction: the task. A task generally represents a program, which might require input files and produce output files as a result of its execution. Applications are then constituted of a collection of tasks. These are submitted for execution and their output data are collected at the end of their execution. The way tasks are generated, the order in which they are executed, or whether they need to exchange data differentiate the application models that fall under the umbrella of task programming. ...

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