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Foil 19 Agglomeration

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
Once tasks + communication determined, "agglomerate" small tasks into larger tasks
Motivations
  • To reduce communication costs
  • If tasks cannot execute concurrently
  • To reduce software engineering costs
Caveats
  • May involve replicating computation or data

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