2.3.3. Combined Functional and Data Parallelism

A more general class of communication schemes consists of a pipeline with 'farmed' stages.

The Brain Aid Prolog compiler itself consists of such a communication structure.

Features:

• generalization of both, data- and functional parallelism

• fairly simple communication structure

• low overhead

• high scalability

• large processing networks possible

• automatic load balancing strategies available

Problems:

• communication structure is more complicated than a farm or a pipeline