On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:35:57 -0400, Mark Bucciarelli
 wrote:
> what's a "tuple space?"  actually, i don't understand what you meant in
> the entire first sentance.  care to elaborate?

Try searching for "linda tuple space" on Google.  Tuple spaces are a
distributed programming model.  As you get jobs to perform, you create a
tuple wrapping up the requested computation and throw it into a big global
pool.  A bunch of independent worker processes then grab tasks out of the
pool, perform them, and throw the results back in to the pool.  So getting
some work done requires throwing a tuple into the pool
and then waiting until it eventually gets answered.

--amk