Practice - Challenges: Overhead of Parallelization, Synchronization, Communication, Load Balancing
Practice Questions
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What is the overhead of parallelization?
💡 Hint: Consider the additional time and effort spent on task management.
Define synchronization in the context of parallel processing.
💡 Hint: Think about how tasks communicate when they depend on shared resources.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the overhead of parallelization primarily concern?
💡 Hint: Think about what tasks are involved in setting up parallel execution.
True or False: Synchronization only refers to managing multiple threads accessing different resources.
💡 Hint: Think about how different tasks interact.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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