Parallel Computing

Parallel computing is a computational method in which multiple processing elements simultaneously execute different parts of a problem to achieve faster solution than sequential execution.

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Computational EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer SystemsHigh-performance Computing

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Communication OverheadConcurrency ControlData ParallelismDistributed Memory ParallelismFault Tolerance In Parallel SystemsGraphics Processing Unit ComputingLoad BalancingMemory Consistency ModelsParallel ArchitecturesParallel Debugging

Publications

60.6K

Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics

Steven J. Plimpton · Journal of Computational Physics · 1995 · 44.6K citations

Computing, High-performance Computing, Physics +10

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1953 · 37.1K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +9

The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

Aaron McKenna, Matthew G. Hanna, Eric Banks et al. · Genome Research · 2010 · 30K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Genetics +17

GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

M Abraham, Teemu J. Murtola, Roland Schulz et al. · SoftwareX · 2015 · 26.8K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, High-performance Computing +11

General atomic and molecular electronic structure system

Michael W. Schmidt, Kim K. Baldridge, Jerry A. Boatz et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry · 1993 · 20.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics +17

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Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States
343 publications · 22.4K citations
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Onur Mutlu
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
109 publications · 11.8K citations
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James Demmel
University of California, Berkeley, United States
121 publications · 12.2K citations
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P. Sadayappan
The Ohio State University, United States
171 publications · 9.5K citations
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William Gropp
Argonne National Laboratory, United States
120 publications · 12.7K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
928 publications · 73.4K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TPDS · 1.2K publications · 58.3K citations
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 956 publications · 58.1K citations
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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
476 publications · 41.2K citations
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SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
474 publications · 31.1K citations
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See also Parallel Computing
Programming Models	Task Parallelism Openmp Message Passing Data Parallelism Message Passing Interface Simd Parallelism Distributed Shared Memory Shared Memory Programming Thread Programming Graphics Processing Unit Computing Mapreduce
Algorithms	Data Parallelism Merge Sort Parallel Numerical Methods Kruskal's Algorithm Parallel Divide-and-conquer Algorithms Quickhull
Architectures	Multicore Architectures Graphics Processing Units Simd Parallelism Manycore Architectures Distributed Shared Memory Distributed Memory Systems Shared-memory Algorithms Hierarchical Systems
Performance Metrics	Resource Utilization Parallel Efficiency Communication Efficiency Scalability Throughput
Synchronization	Race Conditions Atomic Operations Lock-free Algorithms Wait-free Algorithms Condition Variables Barriers Mutexes Semaphores Read-write Locks Hierarchical Barriers