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Serial vs Parallel Computing, Processors, Built-In Functions, The Cloud, Documentation, Distributed Computing
Heterogenous Processor
A processor that combines different kinds of processors into one chip.
What is an APU composed of?
A CPU and GPU (heterogenous processor)
What type of workloads do CPU’s deal with?
Serial Workloads
What type of workloads do GPU’s deal with?
Parallel workloads
What does higher core count mean?
More efficiency in calculations
Parallelization
Splitting a program’s workload across multiple processing cores, so a computer can process different workloads simultaneously.
Sequential Computing
The standard programming model, where the computer executes each operation one at a time.
How to calculate sequential computing
(#of seconds * #of calls per operation) and add them all up.
Speedup
sequential time/parallel time
.split() function
Allows for seperate words to be printed or returned from a sentence
enumerate() function
Accesses the value AND index of each item in a list.
Computing Cloud
A dense cluster of computers
Latency
The time it takes for a data packet to take a round trip between the sender, receiver, and sender again.
Documentation
Context of the code at the start of the program.
Parallel Computing
ONE computer with MULTIPLE processors
Distributed Computing
MULTIPLE computers with MULTIPLE processors.
What are parallel computing solutions composed of?
Parallel + Sequential portion
The efficiency of a parallel solution is limited by what?
its sequential portion.
