Transactional memoryIn computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way. It is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. Transactional memory systems provide high-level abstraction as an alternative to low-level thread synchronization. This abstraction allows for coordination between concurrent reads and writes of shared data in parallel systems.
Embarrassingly parallelIn parallel computing, an embarrassingly parallel workload or problem (also called embarrassingly parallelizable, perfectly parallel, delightfully parallel or pleasingly parallel) is one where little or no effort is needed to separate the problem into a number of parallel tasks. This is often the case where there is little or no dependency or need for communication between those parallel tasks, or for results between them. Thus, these are different from distributed computing problems that need communication between tasks, especially communication of intermediate results.
Loi d'AmdahlEn architecture informatique, la loi d'Amdahl donne l'accélération théorique en latence de l'exécution d'une tâche à charge d'exécution constante que l'on peut attendre d'un système dont on améliore les ressources. Elle est énoncée par l'informaticien Gene Amdahl à l'AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference en 1967. La loi d'Amdahl peut être formulée de la façon suivante : où Slatence est l'accélération théorique en latence de l'exécution de toute la tâche ; s est le nombre de fils d'exécutions (threads) utilisés pour exécuter la tâche p est le pourcentage du temps d'exécution de toute la tâche concernant la partie bénéficiant de l'amélioration des ressources du système avant l'amélioration.
Fat binaryA fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer executable program or library which has been expanded (or "fattened") with code native to multiple instruction sets which can consequently be run on multiple processor types. This results in a file larger than a normal one-architecture binary file, thus the name. The usual method of implementation is to include a version of the machine code for each instruction set, preceded by a single entry point with code compatible with all operating systems, which executes a jump to the appropriate section.
