the panel of experts cloud pattern
In this paper we describe the Panel of Experts cloud pattern and give examples of its use. The Panel of Experts pattern can be applied when a range of algorithms "compete" to provide the best solution to a problem. It can therefore be viewed as the dual of map-reduce [2] as it applies a set of functions to one data item, whereas map-reduce applies one function to a set of data items. The pattern has been evaluated through a large chemical informatics application which can take days to run on tens of cloud nodes.
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