Practice - Challenges in Achieving Parallelism for AI Applications
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Practice Questions
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What does synchronization overhead mean?
💡 Hint: Think about communication effects on performance.
Explain Amdahl’s Law in simple terms.
💡 Hint: Consider the parts that can’t be parallelized.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is synchronization overhead in parallel systems?
💡 Hint: Remember how communication affects performance.
Does Amdahl's Law suggest that adding more processors always increases performance?
💡 Hint: Think about the balance between parallelism and serial tasks.
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Challenge Problems
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Propose a design solution that minimizes synchronization overhead in a parallel processing system used for AI applications. Explain why this would be effective.
💡 Hint: Consider how to restructure tasks for independence.
Given a set of data processing tasks, calculate the maximum expected speedup based on Amdahl’s Law if 90% of the tasks can be parallelized. Explain your calculation.
💡 Hint: Remember to identify the serial fraction and the number of processors.
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