Summary: NetFiles: A Novel Approach to Parallel Programming
of Master/Worker Applications
Philip Chan
and David Abramson
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Victoria 3145 Australia
{pchan, davida}@csse.monash.edu.au

On leave from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines,
where he is a lecturer and a PhD student.
Email: ccspc@ccs.dlsu.edu.ph
ABSTRACT
We propose a new approach to parallel
programming of master-worker applications
using an abstraction for interprocess
communication called NetFiles. The
programmer writes the parallel application
as a collection of sequential modules that

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