In many places, networks of workstations connected by local area networks exist. Such a hardware configuration features processing nodes with high processing power and (comparatively) large resources of local memory and disk space. The underlying communication principle is message passing. Common data (e.g., a formula to be proven) can be kept in file-systems which are shared between the processors (e.g., by NFS). However, the bandwidth of the connection between the workstations is comparatively low and the latency for each communication is rather high.
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