PARALLEL PROCESSING

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DEPENDENCIES Can you break the entire problem (except for the spawn and gather) into independent chunks? Yes - potential candidate for parallel execution No - the benefits of parallelization depend directly on the time spent executing parallel code Identify the portions of your code that do not have dependencies We will not discuss solutions with dependencies Tuesday, August 20, 13
AMDAHL’S LAW P=Number of Cores alpha=proportion of time NOT spent in parallel Diminishing Returns to increasing P for a problem of fixed size Tuesday, August 20, 13
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Page 13 and 14: TAKE CONTROL OF IMPLICIT THREADS SA
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