Levels of Parallelism

• Clusters: Multi-Computer Systems

  • Client-Server, Distributed Apps
  • Virtual Shared Memory Apps

• SMP: Symmetric Multi-Processing

  • Real Shared Memory
  • Multi-Threaded Apps
  • ccNuma straddles SMP, Clusters

• ILP: Instruction-Level Parallelism

  • Pipelining, Superscalar
  • VLIW and beyond…

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