Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 29 August 1995
| Problems are large - use domain decomposition Overheads are edge effects |
| Topology of processor matches that of domain - processor with rich flexible node/topology matches most domains |
| Regular homogeneous problems easiest but |
| irregular or |
| Inhomogeneous |
| Can use local and global parallelism |
| Can handle concurrent calculation and I/O |
| Nature always uses message passing as in parallel computers (at lowest level) |