Thinking Parallel
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Abdallah Al Zain

Abstract

How should we think about parallel programming? This is now a
common question because after decades in a world where most
computers had only one central processing unit (CPU), we are
now in a world where only "old" computers have one CPU. Multi-
core processors are now the norm. Parallel computers are the
norm. Therefore, every software developers needs to Think
Parallel.

This lecture is a brief introduction to the mental discipline
that helps anyone make a program parallelisable in a safe and
scalable manner. In this lecture we define terms such as
scalability and provides the motivation for focusing on these
concepts.