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1: Introduction to Parallelism and Scalability

Plan:

• Course Motivations and target
• Introduction to Parallelism
• Architectures and models
• Parallel program design
• Parallelism and Scalability

Reading material:

• The most part of the lesson is taken by the tutorial "Introduction to Parallel Computing" by Blaise Barney available at https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/
• Mitchell D. Theys and Shoukat Ali and Howard Jay Siegel and Mani Chandy and Kai Hwang and Ken Kennedy and Lui Sha and Kang G. Shin and Marc Snir and Larry Snyder and Thomas Sterling. "What Are the Top Ten Most Influential Parallel and Distributed Processing Concepts of the Past Millenium?", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2001 (61).
• Slides (only for taking track of the arguments treated in the lesson)

Additional material:

• The top 500 site  http://www.top500.org with all sort of diagram and statistics
• A report  "Overview of Recent Supercomputers" by Aad J. van der Steen and Jack Dongarra (2007)