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<h3>4 <span class="Heading">Basic functionality for parallel computation</span></h3>

<p>This page covers the functions used for parallel computation in the book <span class="URL"><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-invitation-to-computational-homotopy-9780198832980">An Invitation to Computational Homotopy</a></span>.</p>

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<h5>4.1-1 ChildCreate</h5>

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<p>Starts a GAP session as a child process and returns a stream to the child process. If no argument is given then the child process is created on the local machine; otherwise the argument should be: (1) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>="computer.address.ie" the address of a remote computer for which ssh has been configured to require no password from the user; (2) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>=["-m", "100000M", "-T"] a list of GAP command line options; (3) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>="computer.ac.wales", ["-m", "100000M", "-T"] the address of a computer followed by a list of command line options.</p>

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<h5>4.1-2 ChildCreate</h5>

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<p>Starts a GAP session as a child process and returns a stream to the child process. If no argument is given then the child process is created on the local machine; otherwise the argument should be: (1) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>="computer.address.ie" the address of a remote computer for which ssh has been configured to require no password from the user; (2) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>=["-m", "100000M", "-T"] a list of GAP command line options; (3) <span class="SimpleMath">str</span>="computer.ac.wales", ["-m", "100000M", "-T"] the address of a computer followed by a list of command line options.</p>

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