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* Adding support for maven assembly plugin to generate executable jar with all dependencies in built * Merge branch 'master' into issue-989 # Conflicts: # abstract-document/pom.xml # pom.xml * Adding maven assemly plugin for projects with name A * Update in format as per checkstyle, i.e. Spcae in place of tab with size of 2 * batch set - 2 having all project with B and C * issue-989 d-e-f * fixing eip pom and adding g-h-i-l-m-n Skipping naked object as it seems it doesn't have main method, will consider this at end * Adding for O and P projects Skipping Object-Mother as we don't have main method for same.
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| pattern | Master-Worker | master-worker-pattern | /patterns/master-worker-pattern/ | Concurrency |
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Also known as
Master-slave or Map-reduce
Intent
Used for centralised parallel processing.
Class diagram
Applicability
This pattern can be used when data can be divided into multiple parts, all of which need to go through the same computation to give a result, which need to be aggregated to get the final result.
Explanation
In this pattern, parallel processing is performed using a system consisting of a master and some number of workers, where a master divides the work among the workers, gets the result back from them and assimilates all the results to give final result. The only communication is between the master and the worker - none of the workers communicate among one another and the user only communicates with the master to get the required job done. The master has to maintain a record of how the divided data has been distributed, how many workers have finished their work and returned a result, and the results themselves to be able to aggregate the data correctly.