Task Parallelism, Recursive Splitting, Discrete Event

Part of today's class discussions will be about the three patterns identified in the title of this post. These patterns fall into the parallel algorithm strategy class of patterns. Essentially, the patterns address issues on how we exploit parallelism to better solve the problem at hand.

Being somewhat new to the world of parallel patterns, I was able to get a basic understanding of the discussion points of each pattern and the rationale behind them. I will say though that as the number of patterns that we read increases, it is sometimes more unclear as to how certain patterns are differentiated from others. I am hoping the discussion in class will be lively and I will pick up a deeper understanding of each of these three patterns.