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MPP was the acronym for the pattern. It let us take a binary executable which would normally just be a single PID on one node and it would distribute the PID and all its resources including files across however many nodes you had configured. The software that managed this was heavily dependent on RISC processor architecture which basically meant only AIX RS6000. Googles solution is designed for commodity processors. The modern equivalents let you do something sort of similar, but you have to design for that and as far as I know you’re not sharing resources like open file handles across the cluster. We took C programs and ran them as is.