Parallel computing can take many forms. From a user's perspective, it is important to consider the advantages and disadvantages of each methodology. The following project attempts to provide some perspective on the methods of parallel computing and indicate where the tradeoffs lie along the continuum. Problems that are parallelizable enable researchers to maximize the computing resources available for a problem, and thus push the limits of the problems that can be solved. Solving any particular problem in parallel will require some very important design decisions to be made. These decisions may dramatically affect portability, performance, and cost of implementing a software solution to the problem. The results gained from this work indicate that although performance improvements are indeed possible---they are heavily dependent on the application in question and may require much more programming effort and expertise to implement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.31180 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Algire, Martin. |
| Contributors | Landry, Jacques-Andre (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001805812, proquestno: MQ70366, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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