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Gearman is an open source application framework designed to distribute appropriate computer tasks to multiple computers, so large tasks can be done more quickly. In some cases, load balancing rather than raw speed may be the main goal; a Web server, for instance, could use Gearman to send tasks for which it is not optimized to another computer (which may be running on a different architecture, using another operating system, or loaded with a computer language better suited to a particular operation).
It has been originally written in Perl by Brad Fitzpatrick. Brian Aker and Eric Day rewrote the framework in C.
Usage examples of "gearman".
Not that Gearman had any hard evidence that his assignment was to any such hush-hush project.
Takahashi was small, even darker than Gearman, and wiry, with eyes so dark brown they looked black.
It was Takahashi, apparently emboldened by her earlier response to Gearman, and she nodded to him.
Lieutenant Gearman remarked with a grin as the last of the squadron and section commanders departed.
Which, Gearman knew, was as close as she would ever come to admitting it.
And for all intents and purposes, Gearman was getting to write the Book for LAC engineers.
Yet whatever his remote ancestors might have thought of fission, Gearman loved the piles in his new ships.
Lieutenant Gearman sat at his console, hands resting lightly on its edge.
A swamper from a port-side dive simply did not become a gearman for a Guild Hunter.
Gearman nodded sharply, thoughts already whirring behind his eyes as he contemplated his new, totally unexpected assignment.