Parallelism & Intelligence

  The Ideal Parallelisator.
(Parallelisation is running a (sequential) program on multiple processors to get the job done in less time, what we call speedup.)

For succes however, parallelisation should be ?sold in a box?. A user should not worry about any aspect, parallelisation must work automatically for every hardware and every problem.

+ ideal scalable (zie Wouter: references toevoegen) match problem - hardware

Human can...

NOW: combinatorial explosion...
 

• partitioning
• synchronisation
• optimisation of communication
• dynamic optimisation!!

The Ideal Simulator
system under study

• analysis: what do we want to know about the dynamics??

=> level of abstraction
• through interaction with user
• model reuse
• model visualisation
• automatic implementation, algorithm, run, test
• automatic parallelisation