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Foil 44 Functional Parallelism in Algorithms

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)
Functional parallelism exploits the parallelism between the parts of many systems.
  • Many pieces to work on ? many independent operations
  • Example: Coarse grain Aeroelasticity (aircraft design)
    • CFD(fluids) and CSM(structures) and others (acoustics, electromagnetics etc.) can be evaluated in parallel
Analysis:
  • Parallelism limited in size -- tens not millions
  • Synchronization probably good as parallelism natural from problem and usual way of writing software
  • Web exploits functional parallelism NOT data parallelism

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