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What is a distributed programming language?

• capableweb 6y ago
  Distributed computing is when you take a bunch of tasks one computer (or CPU/computing units of choice) usually do and spread it out to many computers (or CPU/computing units of choice). This is to give faster execution compared to if you did the work sequentially and is generally a pattern that is gaining more and more popularity as of late. A distributed programming language in this context means that the programming facilitates this paradigm so it's easy to do distributed programming with the language. In the case of Clio, it also means it is distributed by default, so you write code like normal and it's executed in a distributed fashion.
• keithalewis 6y ago
  A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. - Leslie Lamport
• mirekrusin 6y ago
  btw. julia implements fantastic idea in its ssh cluster manager - such a simple thing yet so powerfull; without knowing much about the language I was able to distribute some computation across all computers I had at home, really awesome. As a side note it was also so easy to drop it on GPU. I'm really impressed by julia, I'd love to use it more at work.