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Foil 7 We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works !

From GCF Talk U - Lewis/NASA 3/9/92 Mardi Gras Conference on Concurrent Computing in Physical Sciences -- February 18, 1993. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Data Parallelism - universal form of scaling parallelism
Functional Parallelism - Important but typically modest speedup. - Critical in multidisciplinary applications.
On any machine architecture
  • Distributed Memory MIMD
  • Distributed Memory SIMD
  • Shared memory - this affects programming model This affects generality SIMD ~ 50% academic problems but < 50% commercial

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