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Foil 7 Structure of CPS615 - II -- More on Principles of Parallel Programming

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Overview of Sequential and Parallel Computer Architectures
  • Comparison of Architecture of World Wide Web and Parallel Systems (Clusters versus Integrated Systems)
Elementary discussion of Parallel Computing in Society and why it must obviously work for computers!
What Features of Applications matter
  • Decomposition, Communication, Irregular, Dynamic ....
Issues of Scaling
What sort of software exists and Programming Paradigms
  • Data parallel, Message Passing

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