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01. Title Slide

02. nCube logic board

03. 64 node nCube

04. CM5 at NPAC

05. We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works!

06. What have we learnt?

07. Methodology

08. Concurrent Computation as a Mapping Problem

09. Sample uses of Concurrent Computers

10. Finite element mesh

11. A simple equal area decomposition

12. Decomposition after annealing

13. Concurrent Computing in Society - Hadrian's Wall

14. Concurrent Decomposition by Vertical Section

15. Analyzing Speed-up

16. Amdahl's Law

17. Concurrent Decomposition by Pipelining

18. Topology of Problem

19. General Result for Speed-up

20. The Complete Problem compared to Sub-problems

21. Irregular but Homogeneous Problem

22. Inhomogeneous Problems

23. Local and Global Parallelism

24. Concurrent I/O

25. Nature's Concurrent Computers

26. Comparing computing and society