资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

ZAPP
     
        Zero Assignment Parallel Processor.  A virtual tree machine
        architecture in which a process tree is dynamically mapped
        onto a fixed, strongly connected network of processors
        communicating by message passing.  The basic operation of each
        node is to apply a divide and conquer function which takes
        four arguments: (1) a function 'primitive' which takes a
        problem description (PD) and returns true if it can be solved
        without division, (2) a function 'solve' which takes a
        primitive PD and returns its solution, (3) a function 'divide'
        which takes a PD and returns a list of PDs of smaller problems
        and (4) a function 'combine' which returns the solution to a
        problem by combining a list of solutions of subproblems.
     
        Each node has a copy of the code and one is given the initial
        problem description.  Task distribution is by process stealing
        in which a process constructs a descriptor for each subtask
        and idle (lightly loaded) processors can steal a descriptor
        from a physically connected neighbour.