Program for Parallel Distributed Processing

A software system has been devised to manage automatically (1) the distribution of mutually independent computing tasks to computer workstations in NASA's Flight Design and Analysis System (FADS) network and (2) the execution of those tasks on those workstations. This program parallelizes serial tasks, making it possible to execute them concurrently. This program is a substantial improvement over previously developed special-purpose parallel-processing software systems used by NASA.