A user's perspective on the state of parallel processing

J.G Kuhl

doi:10.1109/CMPSAC.1988.17184

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A user's perspective on the state of parallel processing

J.G Kuhl

Proceedings COMPSAC 88: The Twelfth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, pp.272-273

1988

DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.1988.17184

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Abstract

The author describes his experience with the development of large-scale, highly parallel applications hosted on a variety of parallel processing architectures. He suggests that researchers should not become so caught up in the search for general and consistent models and programming tools for parallel processing that they forsake the ability to tailor the processing resources of the system to the requirements of the problem, and vice versa. High-level abstractions that hide architectural details may obscure performance issues that are important to the algorithm design process. It is concluded that the parallel processing community does not need a single, uniform set of models, tools or paradigms to achieve success. All that is needed is the same sort of basic design and analysis tools that have served the sequential processing community for a number of years.< >

Algorithm design and analysis

Computational modeling

Computer architecture

Computer simulation

Concurrent computing

Mechanical systems

Parallel algorithms

Parallel processing

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Title: Subtitle: A user's perspective on the state of parallel processing
Creators: J.G Kuhl - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings COMPSAC 88: The Twelfth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, pp.272-273
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.1988.17184
Publisher: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press
Language: English
Date published: 1988
Academic Unit: Electrical and Computer Engineering; Public Policy Center (Archive)
Record Identifier: 9984283580902771

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