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by e12e 2663 days ago
Mainly parallel remote execution. Possibly resumption (depending on the task, see gcommer's comment).

You might want to look at:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104778/gnu-parallel...

I'll say that field separation / null termination is a bit annoying for xargs/find etc-but more so perhaps for novice users of shell. I do like shell pipelines, but quoting can be nearly.