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dist[start]: Create a Task

task := dist[start](fun, args...)

This call creates a task that computes fun(args...) on some Maple kernel connected to the distributed session.

All created tasks are scheduled on a fixed number of Maple kernels. If a task is suspended (e.g. by dist[wait]), then another task may be executed on the respective kernel such that in general a kernel hosts a whole stack of tasks of which only the task on top is active.

This scheme is deadlock-free if args does not contain other tasks or shared objects. Otherwise, do not use dist[start] but dist[process].

> t := dist[start](int, x^n, x);
                                     t := 0