Three Things You must Teach: Module 1. Recognizing Potential Parallelism

Module 1 of a 3 part series on introducing parallelism to undergraduates.  In Module 1,  Dr. Clay Breshears of Intel Software College discusses why parallelism is important, how to recognize where it might be introduced as well as and basic methods to adress parallelism in code.

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Topics include:

• What is Parallel computing
• Multi-core Architectures
• Concurrency vs. Parallelism
• Improving Performance
• Methods of exploiting parallelism
• Domain Decomposiston
• Task Decomposition

This module contains downloadable courseware. Download here

(Module 1 contains 2 videos.  This is Video 1)