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Foil 56 Partitioning

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)


1 Goal: identify opportunities for concurrent execution (define tasks: computation+data)
2 Focus on data operated on by algorithm ...
  • Then distribute computation appropriately
  • Domain decomposition or Data Parallelism
3 ... or on the operations performed
  • Then distribute data appropriately
  • Functional decomposition

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