The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
processor farm
farm
A parallel processor where tasks are
distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to
several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the
farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which
can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the
canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot
set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on
communications must be small compared to the time spent
processing each task.
(2001-05-28)