Most useful parallel programming algorithm?
- by Zubair
I recenty asked a question about parallel programming algorithms which was closed quite fast due to my bad ability to communicate my intent:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407631/what-is-the-most-useful-parallel-programming-algorithm-closed
I had also recently asked another question, specifically:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407493/is-mapreduce-such-a-generalisation-of-another-programming-principle/2407570#2407570
The other question was specifically about map reduce and to see if mapreduce was a more specific version of some other concept in parallel programming. This question (about a useful parallel programming algorithm) is more about the whole series of algorithms for parallel programming. You will have to excuse me though as I am quite new to parallel programming, so maybe MapReduce or something that is a more general form of mapreduce is the "only" parallel programming construct which is available, in which case I apologise for my ignorance