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  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  ZAPP 
 
  Zero  Assignment  Parallel  Processor.  A  virtual  tree  machine 
  architecture  in  which  a  process  tree  is  dynamically  mapped 
  onto  a  fixed,  strongly  connected  network  of  processors 
  communicating  by  message  passing.  The  basic  operation  of  each 
  node  is  to  apply  a  divide  and  conquer  function  which  takes 
  four  arguments:  (1)  a  function  'primitive'  which  takes  a 
  problem  description  PD  and  returns  true  if  it  can  be  solved 
  without  division,  (2)  a  function  'solve'  which  takes  a 
  primitive  PD  and  returns  its  solution,  (3)  a  function  'divide' 
  which  takes  a  PD  and  returns  a  list  of  PDs  of  smaller  problems 
  and  (4)  a  function  'combine'  which  returns  the  solution  to  a 
  problem  by  combining  a  list  of  solutions  of  subproblems 
 
  Each  node  has  a  copy  of  the  code  and  one  is  given  the  initial 
  problem  description.  Task  distribution  is  by  process  stealing 
  in  which  a  process  constructs  a  descriptor  for  each  subtask 
  and  idle  (lightly  loaded)  processors  can  steal  a  descriptor 
  from  a  physically  connected  neighbour. 
 
 
 
  From  V.E.R.A.  --  Virtual  Entity  of  Relevant  Acronyms  13  March  2001  [vera]: 
 
  ZAPP 
  Zero  Assignment  Parallel  Processor 
 
 

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