Squeeze more performance from Parallelism

Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:08PM
Haytham ElFadeel in Actor Model, Parallelism, Parallelism, algorithm, concurrency, parallel

In many posts, such as: The Future of the Parallelism and its Challenges I mentioned that synchronization the access to the shared resource is the major challenge to write parallel code.

The synchronization and coordination take long time from the overall execution time, which reduce the benefits of the parallelism; the synchronization and coordination also reduce the scalability.

There are many forms of synchronization and coordination, such as:

• Create Task object in frameworks such as: Microsoft TPL, Intel TDD, and Parallel Runtime Library. Create and enqueue task objects require synchronization that it’s takes long time especially if we create it into recursive work such as: Quick Sort algorithm.
• Synchronization the access to shared data.

But there are a few techniques to avoid these issues, such as: Shared-Nothing, Actor Model, and Hyper Object (A.K.A. Combinable Object). Simply if we reduce the shared data by re-architect our code this will gives us a huge benefits in performance and scalability.

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