National Conference
on
Parallel Computing
October 20-22, 2008
Venue: PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India |
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By Department of MCA
PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage
Bangalore – 560 085, Karnataka, INDIA
In Association With
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About the conference
Parallel Computing (PC) is a subject discussed in the context of high performance computing (HPC). The goal of HPC is to find faster solutions to larger and more complex problems. This area is a highly interdisciplinary area ranging from numerical analysis and algorithm design to programming languages, computer architectures, software and real applications. The participants include engineers, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists, and many others. This concentrates on well developed and more research oriented parallel algorithms in science and engineering that have traditionally relied on high performance computing.
PC operates on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently.
There are several different forms of parallel computing:
- Bit-level parallelism
- Instruction-level parallelism
- Data parallelism4.Task parallelism
It has been used for many years, mainly in high-performance computing, but interest in it has grown in recent years due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. Parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multicore processors. However, in recent years, power consumption by parallel computers has become a concern. |