LECTURE: Parallel Computing

Overview

Teaching: 20 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• Why parallel programming?

Objectives

• To learn about the possible uses of parallel programming.

• Learning about main parallel programming methods.

Why parallel programming?

“But I’m not a programmer…”

Parallel decomposition

Geometric decomposition

Load imbalance

Task farms

Pipelines

Loop parallelism

Key Points

• To be determined