25 Task Computing : HTC-HPC-MTC
Dear students, In our last blog, we came across concurrent computing, where the focus was how a single program can be computed faster by decomposing either based on data sets (Domain Decomposition) or based on functionality (Function Decomposition). Once the decomposition is planned properly in the program, it can be assigned to multiple cores or multiple threads. Concurrent computing is a form of parallelism on the same machine. When we talk about task computing, we are looking at executing not single program, but multiple programs. Each program can be considered as a task with lot of data or consisting of many work units. These tasks can be executed using multiple machines. Task Computing is a form of parallelism on multiple machines. It is a network of machines, where one machine (called local node) becomes responsible to submit the task, then one machine schedules it , checks status on all submitted tasks (access nodes) , one machine provides any resources such as files, data...