Starting point: goals of parallel computing

STARTING POINT:

GOALS OF PARALLEL COMPUTING:

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  High Performance – exploitation of inherent parallelism
  
  
  
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  Fault Tolerance – exploitation of inherent redundancy
  
  
  
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  Natural Solution to “Distributed Problems”
  
  
  
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  Graceful Degradation and Growth
  

TYPES OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES:

SIMD ARCHITECTURE: