Template:Parallel computing

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General	Cloud computing · High-performance computing · Cluster computing · Distributed computing · Grid computing

Parallelism (levels)	Bit · Instruction · Data · Task

Threads	Superthreading · Hyperthreading

Theory	Amdahl's law · Gustafson's law · Cost efficiency · Karp-Flatt metric · slowdown · speedup

Elements	Process · Thread · Fiber · PRAM

Coordination	Multiprocessing · Multithreading · Memory coherency · Cache coherency · Barrier · Synchronization · Application checkpointing

Programming	Models (Implicit parallelism · Explicit parallelism · Concurrency) · Flynn's taxonomy (SISD • SIMD • MISD • MIMD (SPMD))

Hardware	Multiprocessing (Symmetric · Asymmetric) · Memory (NUMA · COMA · distributed · shared · distributed shared) · SMT MPP · Superscalar · Vector processor · Supercomputer · Beowulf

APIs	POSIX Threads · OpenMP · PVM · MPI · UPC · Intel Threading Building Blocks · Boost.Thread · Global Arrays · Charm++ · Cilk

Problems	Embarrassingly parallel · Grand Challenge · Software lockout · Scalability · Race conditions · Deadlock · Deterministic algorithm

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