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Atomic
Chip multiprocessor
Cilk
Cilk-1
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cilk_for
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cilk_scope
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Cilk++
Cilksan
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Critical section
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Deadlock
Determinacy race
Determinism
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Execution time
Fake lock
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Global variable
Hyperobject
Instruction
Knot
Linear speedup
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Lock contention
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Nondeterminism
Nonlocal variable
OpenCilk
Parallel loop
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Perfect linear speedup
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Processor
Race condition
Receiver
Reducer
Response time
Running time
Scale down
Scale up
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Serial execution
Serial projection
Serial semantics
Serialization
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Span
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Sync
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glossary
scale down
The ability of a parallel application to run efficiently on one or a small number of
processors
.