01/24/2012
CS267 Lecture 3
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Parallel Programming Models
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Programming model is made up of the languages and
libraries that create an abstract view of the machine
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Control
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How is parallelism created?
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What orderings exist between operations?
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Data
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What data is private vs. shared?
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How is logically shared data accessed or communicated?
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Synchronization
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What operations can be used to coordinate parallelism?
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What are the atomic (indivisible) operations?
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Cost
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How do we account for the cost of each of the above?
