CSCI 3366
Spring 2004
Homework Five
           
The Motivation for this exercise is to provide the programmer with 
a cadre of tools that can be used to program distributed systems. 
With that in mind, we shall write a parallel sort in the programming
language python. 

Why python? Why not!

Write a client-server application which will use a master process, 
the client, and (at least) four servers to sort a collection of
numbers into ascending numerical order. Time the process in any
way you can and compare the times to the times obtained in the MPI
environment. Which is faster? Which did you expect to be faster? 
Make every effort to assure that the programs are doing the same
thing.


Homework due Exam Day