Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: goller@fcggsg32 (Goller Alois)
Subject: Re: Definition of Granularity
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
Date: 14 Nov 1994 07:56:18 GMT
Message-ID: <3a7572$hmq@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>

D. Subramani (Raj.Subramani@ncl.ac.uk) wrote:
: Could some kind soul please post/e-mail me a clear
: and concise definition of Granularity (or its 
: reference). I have yet to see one (clear and concise,
: that is) from the six textbooks I have so far
: reffered to.

: Mucho gracias.

: Cheers

: -raj.subramani@newcastle.ac.uk

A coarse grained algorithm is generally easier to parallelize
than a fine grained one :-)

Seriously: As I looked for the solution of this question, I
found many answers from many authors but most of all were
different from each other. Who is authorized to give such 
a definition?

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