Fig. 1
From: Tentacle: distributed quantification of genes in metagenomes
Master-Worker. Tentacle uses a dynamic master-worker scheme to distribute work between computer cluster nodes. The master maintains a list of jobs to be run and a list of available worker nodes. Worker nodes can dynamically come online at any time and register with the master process to start receiving jobs. When the workers finish a job, they report back to the master for another job. This continues until the master’s job queue is depleted. The master process can request that worker nodes rerun jobs that fail