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A useful teaching example for Parallel Processing courses is given in Rebecca's Blog : "Example Performance Evaluation" I added the following comment: "I liked the example and I think this kind of demonstrations really help explaining were bottlenecks may occur in the parallel code. I would like to add two comments: 1. Solving the matrix and obtaining 0 for the startup time, after already neglecting the bandwidth, means that the problem is totally Embarrassingly Parallel and this is indeed the case for MC calculations. It would be interesting to repeat the exercise for a communication intensive application, e.g. Laplace equation. 2. I think it worth mentioning Collective Communication commands, i.e. Bcast and Reduce in this context. In particular Reduce+Summation can be more efficient than the loop over the Recv because it can do summation out of order and this may hide some of the holding/communication time. Another alternative is to use MPI ANY_SOURCE in the Rec...

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I did a Google digging research and became puzzled: I searched for a few Buzz Words and then repeated the search with a combination of them. The number of entries returned is not in accordance with the known laws of arithmetics! " Grid Computing " 171,000 entries where "XXX YYY" means with the exact phrase XXX YYY ! virtualization 1,530,000 entries " Grid Computing " Virtualization 1,300,000 entries where space between the terms means with all of the words. virtualization -"grid computing" 2,580,000 entries where "-" means exclude the term from the search -virtualization " grid computing " 4,510,000 entries In order to verify this mystery I repeated the test with two other terms: Israel 26,600,000 entries Jerusalem 4,190,000 entries Jerusalem Israel 1,120,000 entries jerusalem -israel 2,150,000 entries -jerusalem israel 45,300,000 entries To my understanding the situation can be demonstrated as in the following plot...