A distributed job is one whose tasks do not directly communicate with each other. The tasks do not need to run simultaneously, and a worker might run several tasks of the same job in succession. Typically, all tasks perform the same or similar functions on different data sets in an embarrassingly parallel configuration.

The following sections describe how to program distributed jobs:

Evaluating Functions Asynchronously

Using a Local Scheduler

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