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Foil 4 Why Parallel Computing?

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
1 Continuing demands for higher performance
2 Physical limits on single processor performance
3 High costs of internal concurrency
4 Result is rise of multiprocessor architectures
  • And number of processors will continue to increase
5 Networking is another contributing factor
6 Future software must be concurrent & scalable
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