US/Venezuela Workshop on High Performance Computing 2000 Seminario EEUU/Venezuela de Computación de Alto Rendimiento 2000 María Blanca Ibáñez Universidad Simon Bolivar

Parallel Systems: Two Case Studies

Abstract

We present the necessary steps to parallelize an application successfully. The techniques described are illustrated by two study cases. The first is a medical application: The 3D Reconstruction of Angiographic Images. The second is a N-Body problem: Molecular Dynamics of Short Range.

We emphasize three key aspects neccessary to design and implement a parallel application. The first is the importance to start with a suitable sequential algorithm. The second is to achieve a good load balance. The last is to find an equilibrium between the amount of computing and communications.

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