From PBDN

Summary

The first lecture was a general overview of the idea of parallel computation

Included examples of some historical and modern parallel computers. The dependence of speedup on numerous factors, particularly suitability of the application to parallelisation, was discussed. The fact that programs must be written to take advantage of multiple processors was introduced.

Two specific topics, which will occupy a great deal of the course, were introduced:

1. MPI
2. OpenMP

Presentation Slides

Thanks to Jarmo for providing the lecture slides from the first lecture:

• Lecture Slides (PDF)

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