HELP! * YELLOW=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared July 6 1996

Foil 45 We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works !

From HPCC Status -- TeraFlop to Web and Petaflops -- Success and Failure Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Data Parallelism - universal form of scaling parallelism
Functional Parallelism - Important but typically modest speedup. - Critical in multidisciplinary applications.
On any machine architecture
  • Distributed Memory MIMD
  • Distributed Memory SIMD
  • Shared memory - this affects programming model
  • This affects generality
  • SIMD ~ 50% academic problems
  • but < 50% commercial
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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