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Functional Parallelism

dist[start](f, a, ...)

creates a task evaluating the expression f(a, ...) and returns a reference t to this task. The execution of f may take place on any machine connected to the distributed session and should therefore not cause any side effects. Tasks may create other tasks and arbitrary Maple objects (including task references) may be passed as task arguments and returned as task results.

dist[wait](t)

blocks the execution of the current task until the task represented by t has terminated and returns its result. Multiple tasks may independently wait for and retrieve the result of the same task t.