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Foil 17 Partitioning

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
Goal: identify opportunities for concurrent execution (define tasks: computation+data)
Focus on data operated on by algorithm ...
  • Then distribute computation appropriately
  • Domain decomposition
... or on the operations performed
  • Then distribute data appropriately
  • Functional decomposition

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