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Assignment 1 - Select and Assess
Array Processing
Subject: Array Processing
Blaise Barney introduced Parallel Computing https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/ Array processing could become one of the parallel example, which "demonstrates calculations on 2-dimensional array elements; a function is evaluated on each array element."
Standard random method is used to initialize a 2-dimentional array. The purpose of this program is to perform a 2-dimension array calculation, which is a matrix-matrix multiplication in this example.
In this following profile example, n = 1000
Flat profile:
Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
% cumulative self self total time seconds seconds calls Ts/call Ts/call name
100.11 1.48 1.48 multiply(float**, float**, float**, int)
0.68 1.49 0.01 init(float**, int) 0.00 1.49 0.00 1 0.00 0.00 _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z4initPPfi
Call graph
granularity: each sample hit covers 2 byte(s) for 0.67% of 1.49 seconds
index % time self children called name
<spontaneous>
[1] 99.3 1.48 0.00 multiply(float**, float**, float**, int) [1]
<spontaneous>
[2] 0.7 0.01 0.00 init(float**, int) [2]
0.00 0.00 1/1 __libc_csu_init [16]
[10] 0.0 0.00 0.00 1 _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z4initPPfi [10]
� Index by function name
[10] _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z4initPPfi (arrayProcessing.cpp) [2] init(float**, int) [1] multiply(float**, float**, float**, int)
From the call graph, multiply() took major runtime more than 99%, as it contains 3 for-loop, which is O(n^3). Besides, init() also became the second busy one, which has a O(n^2).
As the calculation of elements is independent of one another - leads to an embarrassingly parallel solution. Arrays elements are evenly distributed so that each process owns a portion of the array (subarray). It can be solved in less time with multiple compute resources than with a single compute resource.
The Monte Carlo Simulation (PI Calculation)
Subject: The Monte Carlo Simulation (PI Calculation) Got the code from here: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_methods#C.2B.2B A Monte Carlo Simulation is a way of approximating the value of a function where calculating the actual value is difficult or impossible.
It uses random sampling to define constraints on the value and then makes a sort of "best guess."
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