Parallélisme

Exécution simultanée réelle sur plusieurs processeurs.

Parallelism involves dividing a large problem into smaller sub-problems, which are solved concurrently on multiple processors or cores. Unlike concurrency (which deals with managing multiple tasks at once), parallelism is about doing multiple tasks at the same time. It is key to high-performance computing and leveraging modern multi-core CPUs.

        graph LR
  Center["Parallélisme"]:::main
  Rel_concurrency["concurrency"]:::related -.-> Center
  click Rel_concurrency "/terms/concurrency"
  Rel_continuous_integration_ci["continuous-integration-ci"]:::related -.-> Center
  click Rel_continuous_integration_ci "/terms/continuous-integration-ci"
  Rel_multiprocessing["multiprocessing"]:::related -.-> Center
  click Rel_multiprocessing "/terms/multiprocessing"
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Data Parallelism distributes data across different nodes, while Task Parallelism distributes different sub-functions. Amdahl's Law limits the maximum speedup achievable through parallelism based on the sequential fraction of the code. Massive parallelism is achieved via GPUs (thousands of cores) and MPI clusters (thousands of nodes).

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