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Foil 3 Designing Parallel Algorithms

From DoD HPF Training -- 5. Parallel Programming in HPF DoD Training and Others -- 1995-98. by Chuck Koelbel -- Rice University
Partition
  • Divide problem into tasks to expose potential parallelism
Communicate
  • Determine amount and pattern of data to share between tasks
Agglomerate
  • Combine tasks to increase granularity and reduce communication
Map
  • Assign agglomerated tasks to physical processors

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