By T. J. Fountain

This e-book units out the rules of parallel computing, explaining why, the place, and the way parallel computing is used. it's distinctive in its insurance of either traditional and neural computing (which act in methods just like human brains), and likewise covers such themes because the basic paradigms hired within the box, how structures are programmed or informed, technical points together with connectivity and processing point complexity, and the way procedure functionality is envisioned (and why doing so is difficult). The penultimate bankruptcy contains a suite of case reports of archetypal parallel pcs, every one examine written through somebody heavily attached with the procedure in query. the ultimate bankruptcy correlates a number of the facets of parallel computing right into a taxonomy of platforms.

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Before doing so, however, in order to clarify the headings given to some of the following sections of this chapter, it is necessary to consider one of the earliest, and perhaps most useful, attempts at classifying computer systems. In 1966, M. J. Flynn published a seminal paper in the Proceedings of IEEE [1] concerning a taxonomy of computer architectures. The central idea was that this could be carried out in terms of data streams and instruction streams, and the singularity or multiplicity of each.

I will begin by describing the method of graph reduction per se, and then explain the modifications which are required for parallel implementation. The basic idea is this. Any computational program can be expressed as a graph. 9, which is known as the computation graph. Graph reduction proceeds by repeatedly evaluating sub-graphs which are reducible, that is, single functions which have parameters which are all either constants or evaluated expressions. The process of reduction normally proceeds, therefore, from the left of the graph to the right, and continues until no further reductions can take place.

The first reason why image processing is an appropriate area for the application of parallel computing has two aspects. The first concerns the sheer quantities of data which may be involved. 2 summarises the data content (in bytes) of some typical images. The second aspect lies in the speed at which processing of these images is required to proceed, and there are two quite separate ways in which this requirement arises. First, many image processing applications occur in environments where the repetition rate for processing images is fixed by some external constraint.

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