Parallélisme (informatique)vignette|upright=1|Un des éléments de Blue Gene L cabinet, un des supercalculateurs massivement parallèles les plus rapides des années 2000. En informatique, le parallélisme consiste à mettre en œuvre des architectures d'électronique numérique permettant de traiter des informations de manière simultanée, ainsi que les algorithmes spécialisés pour celles-ci. Ces techniques ont pour but de réaliser le plus grand nombre d'opérations en un temps le plus petit possible.
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.
Traitement massivement parallèleEn informatique, le traitement massivement parallèle (en anglais, massively parallel processing ou massively parallel computing) est l'utilisation d'un grand nombre de processeurs (ou d'ordinateurs distincts) pour effectuer un ensemble de calculs coordonnés en parallèle (c'est-à-dire simultanément). Différentes approches ont été utilisées pour implanter le traitement massivement parallèle. Dans cette approche, la puissance de calcul d'un grand nombre d'ordinateurs distribués est utilisée de façon opportuniste chaque fois qu'un ordinateur est disponible.
Parallel programming modelIn computing, a parallel programming model is an abstraction of parallel computer architecture, with which it is convenient to express algorithms and their composition in programs. The value of a programming model can be judged on its generality: how well a range of different problems can be expressed for a variety of different architectures, and its performance: how efficiently the compiled programs can execute. The implementation of a parallel programming model can take the form of a library invoked from a sequential language, as an extension to an existing language, or as an entirely new language.
Parallel algorithmIn computer science, a parallel algorithm, as opposed to a traditional serial algorithm, is an algorithm which can do multiple operations in a given time. It has been a tradition of computer science to describe serial algorithms in abstract machine models, often the one known as random-access machine. Similarly, many computer science researchers have used a so-called parallel random-access machine (PRAM) as a parallel abstract machine (shared-memory).
Task parallelismTask parallelism (also known as function parallelism and control parallelism) is a form of parallelization of computer code across multiple processors in parallel computing environments. Task parallelism focuses on distributing tasks—concurrently performed by processes or threads—across different processors. In contrast to data parallelism which involves running the same task on different components of data, task parallelism is distinguished by running many different tasks at the same time on the same data.
Map (parallel pattern)Map is an idiom in parallel computing where a simple operation is applied to all elements of a sequence, potentially in parallel. It is used to solve embarrassingly parallel problems: those problems that can be decomposed into independent subtasks, requiring no communication/synchronization between the subtasks except a join or barrier at the end. When applying the map pattern, one formulates an elemental function that captures the operation to be performed on a data item that represents a part of the problem, then applies this elemental function in one or more threads of execution, hyperthreads, SIMD lanes or on multiple computers.
Single instruction multiple dataSingle Instruction on Multiple Data (signifiant en anglais : « instruction unique, données multiples »), ou SIMD, est une des quatre catégories d'architecture définies par la taxonomie de Flynn en 1966 et désigne un mode de fonctionnement des ordinateurs dotés de capacités de parallélisme. Dans ce mode, la même instruction est appliquée simultanément à plusieurs données pour produire plusieurs résultats.
Multiple instructions on multiple datathumb|Principe du mode MIMD Multiple Instructions multiple data ou MIMD un des quatre modes de fonctionnement défini par la taxonomie de Flynn et désigne les machines multi-processeurs où chaque processeur exécute son code de manière asynchrone et indépendante. Pour assurer la cohérence des données, il est souvent nécessaire de synchroniser les processeurs entre eux, les techniques de synchronisation dépendent de l'organisation de la mémoire.
ComputationA computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computations are mathematical equations and computer algorithms. Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers. The study of computation is the field of computability, itself a sub-field of computer science. The notion that mathematical statements should be ‘well-defined’ had been argued by mathematicians since at least the 1600s, but agreement on a suitable definition proved elusive.
