Title: Models of Parallel Computation

Speaker: Mark McCartin-Lim, UMass Amherst

Abstract:

Why is parallelism hard to model, and what can a theoretician do
in this area? I will discuss the tradeoffs of some existing computational
models including PRAM, multi-BSP, resource oblivious computation, and map
reductions. This talk is based in part upon what I learned from attending
the Workshop on Parallelism: A 2020 Vision at DIMACS.