Parallelism in Computation


Challenges of Parallelism

  • Load Balancing
    • Some items are harder to find than others
    • Some scouts are more efficient than others
  • Bottlenecks
    • How many registers are open?
  • Non-uniform resource access
    • Some of the younger cub scouts can't reach the higher shelves
  • Reliability
    • What if you can't trust all of your scouts?

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