Module: Data Parallelism

Learning Outcomes

Concurrency and Performance

• Understand the notion of parallel speedup, parallel efficiency
• Understand the reason for and the implications of Amdahl’s law

Data Parallelism

• Understand the concept of data parallelism
• Understand notions of work-sharing and domain-decomposition
• Understand notions of load-balancing
• Be able to implement efficient data-parallelism in programs

Readings

Experiential Learning