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Foil 45 Partitioning

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
Goal: identify opportunities for concurrent execution (define tasks: computation+data)
Focus on data operated on by algorithm ...
  • Then distribute computation appropriately
  • Domain decomposition or Data Parallelism
... or on the operations performed
  • Then distribute data appropriately
  • Functional decomposition

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