Activities

Activities

Each directory contains a description and the materials required to run each activity. We have:

• Sort - an embarrassingly parallel demonstration of the benefits of parallelism.
• ParallelSums - calculating the sum of a list of numbers using a master-slave paradigm and a peerless one.
• MessagePassingSort - sorting a distributed list of numbers. This requires some explanation so not ideally suited to a high throughput environment.

In progress

• ParallelWordCount - a parallel word count activity modelled on MapReduce.
• PostalSort - another embarrassingly parallel sort but slightly more complicated than the Sort activity.
• Reference - reference materials providing background that may be used at an outreach event.
• SuperComputingChallenge - a webapp that can be used at events.

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