Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 56 Categories of Application Problems

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
Sequential - Traditional codes - "dusty deck FORTRAN or COBOL or C++ etc, typically "single threaded".
Data Parallel - Synchronous: Tightly coupled, software needs to exploit features of problem structure to get good performance. Comparatively easy as different data elements are essentially identical.
Data Parallel - Loosely Synchronous: As above but data elements are not identical. Still parallelises due to macroscopic time synchronisation.

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