Practice Challenges: Overhead Of Parallelization, Synchronization, Communication, Load Balancing (8.1.4)
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Challenges: Overhead of Parallelization, Synchronization, Communication, Load Balancing

Practice - Challenges: Overhead of Parallelization, Synchronization, Communication, Load Balancing

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the overhead of parallelization?

💡 Hint: Consider the additional time and effort spent on task management.

Question 2 Easy

Define synchronization in the context of parallel processing.

💡 Hint: Think about how tasks communicate when they depend on shared resources.

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Question 1

What does the overhead of parallelization primarily concern?

Decreased performance
Additional resource management
Task efficiency

💡 Hint: Think about what tasks are involved in setting up parallel execution.

Question 2

True or False: Synchronization only refers to managing multiple threads accessing different resources.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how different tasks interact.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a parallel system that efficiently manages interdependencies while minimizing communication overhead across different processors. Provide a conceptual outline of its operations.

💡 Hint: Consider how to keep tasks independent as much as possible.

Challenge 2 Hard

Evaluate the effects of high communication overhead on the performance of a parallel algorithm designed for a computational task. What strategies can mitigate these effects?

💡 Hint: Reflect on communication patterns and how they can be optimized.

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