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@@ -91,16 +91,13 @@ This is a high level overview of the architecture.
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.. image:: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/celery/celery/Celery-Overview-v4.jpg
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-The broker delivers tasks to the worker nodes.
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-A worker node is a networked machine running `celeryd`. This can be one or
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-more machines depending on the workload.
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+The broker delivers tasks to the worker instances.
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+A worker instance is started by running the `celery worker` program.
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+You can have many networked machines running worker instances, forming a
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+cluster, or you can run everything on a single machine.
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-[Q: Do you mean 'there can be many worker nodes' or 'A worker node can
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-be more than one machine'? I think the former...]
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-The result of the task can be stored for later retrieval (called its
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-"tombstone").
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+The return value of the task can be stored for later retrieval,
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+and the progress of the task can be tracked (called the task's *state*).
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.. _celery-example:
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