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Foil 10 We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works !
From REU Presentation -- An Overview of NPAC REU Seminar -- June 8,95. byGeoffrey C. Fox * Critical Information in IMAGESecs 50
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
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