PARALLEL PROCESSING

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EXAMPLE Calculate the column means of a data matrix Divide data into equal groups (or blocks) of rows for parallel processing (spawn) Is the array in memory or does it need to be read from disk? Memory access is at least an order of magnitude faster than disk access (depends on whether the access is sequential or random) Tuesday, August 20, 13
EXAMPLE (CONTINUED) Within each group, calculate the sum for each column Store result (what if one core wants to write the result at the same time as another core?) Sum the results for each group and divide by the sample size Tuesday, August 20, 13
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