A Client Server Framework for Parallel Applications

Figure 7.4: Supervisor workers model in client server.

• Parallel applications can be designed using the client/server model.
• A client may divide a big application into several smaller problems that can be processed by multiple servers simultaneously.

• All the servers compute the solution to their respective problems and send their results to the client.
• The client assembles the results from each server and outputs the final result to the user.
• The client acts as the master (supervisor) while the servers act as the slaves (workers) in the master-slave (supervisor-workers) model as shown in Fig. 7.4.