CS267 / Eng233 / IDS267 Applications of Parallel Computers
Lecture 1: Introduction
Abstract
This lecture introduces you to the application of parallel processing
and to the course. First it demonstrates through a family of case
studies how and why important applications require the computing
capacity only available through large parallel machines. We see
through areodynamic design study how greater quality can be obtained
through multidisciplinary simulation, but this demands much greater
computing capacity and greater programming generality. Design
optimization how faster turn-around on large problems translates into
a better exploration of the design space. In information processing,
eg., transaction processing and web indexing, we see that parallel
processing dominates the high end. In the second part of the
lecture we briefly discuss why parallelism is the only way we will
reach the level of performance required for these applications in the
near term.
In the third part of the lecture we give an overview
of the course.
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