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### Why Parallelism ### Why Parallelism
- Faster, of course - Faster, of course
- Finish the work earlier - Same work in less time - Finish the work earlier - Same work in less time.
- Do more work - More work in the same time - Do more work - More work in the same time.
### How to parallelize ### How to parallelize
- Firstly, break down the computational part into small pieces. - Firstly, break down the computational part into small pieces.
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- Part (or all) of the memory is accessible to all processors. - Part (or all) of the memory is accessible to all processors.
- Processors interact by modifying data objects stored in this shared-address-space. - Processors interact by modifying data objects stored in this shared-address-space.
- If the time taken by a processor to access any memory word in the system (global or local) is - If the time taken by a processor to access any memory word in the system (global or local) is
- identical, then the platform is classified as a **uniform memory access (UMA)**, - identical, then the platform is classified as a **uniform memory access (UMA)**.
- not identical, then its classified as **non-uniform memory access (NUMA)** machine. - not identical, then its classified as **non-uniform memory access (NUMA)** machine.
![Shared memory](https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/images/sharedMemoryModel.gif) ![Shared memory](https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/images/sharedMemoryModel.gif)
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#### More Information: #### More Information:
- [Parallel Computing on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing) - [Parallel Computing on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing)
- [Task (Functional) Parallelism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_parallelism)
- [Data (Domain) Parallelism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_parallelism)
- [Introduction to Parallel Computing](https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/) - [Introduction to Parallel Computing](https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/)
- [Introduction to Parallel Computing-Book](https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/parbook/) - [Introduction to Parallel Computing-Book](https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/parbook/)