Foster's Design Methodology

Tue, 04/29/2008 - 10:11 — leif

==Partition== * Divide the problem into tasks * Intention is to identify and expose opportunities for parallel execution ==Communication== * Sharing data between computations * Determine amount and pattern of communication ==Aglomeration== * Combine or group tasks to improve performance ==Mapping== * Assign agglomerated tasks to threads/physical processors.