Coarse-Grained Parallelism

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Cray Computer Cluster 05 HRSS-1-150x150OpenMP is basically fine-grained, in that parallel parts of the application are created and destroyed multiple times throughout a run. …

MPI is generally a coarse-grained, as the parallelism where MPI is used would be higher up in the algorithm. Using MPI for an application requires a developer to think more about the individual servers and how to distribute parts of the application to these servers.

So, which is better?

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