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Lecture 17: Performance Issues in Parallelization

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Description: Lecture covering the impact of synchronization and memory on parallel performance, using OpenMP instead of Cilk. Topics include granularity of parallelism, true and false sharing, and load balancing.

Speaker: Saman Amarasinghe

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