Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Easy Introduction to Parallel computing



Parallel computing:

the uses of multiple processors or computers that rely on each other/work together to perform a common task

–Each processor works on its section of the problem
–Processors can exchange information

Grid of problem to be solved
Why parallel computing is impoertant.

  •  single CPU computing constraint 

          -performance
          -available memory

  • Parallel computing allows one to:

         -solve problems that don’t fit on a single CPU
         -solve problems that can’t be solved in a reasonable time

  • We can solve

          -larger problems
          -the same problem faster
          -more cases
•All computers are parallel these days, even your phones has two cores

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