1. Task-Farm Distributed Computing
There is a task manager and a set of task workers (farmers).
Manager places “task descriptors” in a global queue.
The farmers access the queue and retrieve a task descriptor when it becomes idle, it then performs the requested work, returns any results, and goes to the queue for the next task.
Task Manager
Task Queue
Worker 1
Worker 2
Worker 3
Worker 4

2. What is the unit of work? Is it a section of a graph?
How should the shared queue be implemented and managed?
What is the advantage of this approach in our situation?