-In this chapter, we are presented in general different types of parallelism levels that can be implemented in a software and hardware techniques. Furthermore, the types of the parallel architectures are demonstrated and classified according to how the computing units are connected to a memory model. Two parallel systems are classified to the shared and distributed platforms. Depending on these two types, we are categorized the parallel programming models. The parallel iterative methods are explained and its two types, the synchronous and asynchronous iterative methods, are described. The synchronous iterative methods are well implemented over local homogeneous cluster with a high speed network link, while the asynchronous iterative methods are more conventional to implement over the distributed heterogeneous clusters.
-Consequently, running these two types of the parallel iterative methods over distributed platforms is interested in this work. The energy consumption model for measuring the energy consumption of the parallel applications from the literature is described. This model cannot be used for all types of parallel architectures. The energy model is assumed to measure the dynamic power during both communication and computation times, while the processor involved remains idle during the communications time and only consumes static power. Moreover, it is not well adapted to the heterogeneous architectures.
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-However, in the coming chapters of this thesis a new energy consumption models are developed, use for modeling and measuring the energies consumed by a parallel iterative methods running on both homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures.
+In this chapter, three sections have been presented for describing the parallel hardware architectures, parallel iterative applications and the energy consumption model used to measure the energies of these applications.
+In the first section, different types of parallelism levels that can be implemented in a software and hardware techniques have explained. Furthermore, the types of the parallel architectures are demonstrated and classified according to how the computing units are connected to a memory model.
+Both of the shared and distributed platforms are demonstrated and depending on them the parallel programming models have categorized.
+In the second section, the two types parallel iterative methods are described as synchronous and asynchronous iterative methods. The synchronous iterative methods are well implemented over local homogeneous cluster with a high speed network link, while the asynchronous iterative methods are more conventional to implement over the distributed heterogeneous clusters.
+Finally in the third section, the energy consumption model used for measuring the energy consumption of the parallel applications from the related literature is described. This model cannot be used for all types of parallel architectures. Indeed, it assumes measuring the dynamic power during both of the communication and computation times, while the processor involved remains idle during the communication times and only consumes the static power. Moreover, it is not well adapted to heterogeneous architectures when there are different types of the processors, which are consumed different dynamic and static powers at the same time.
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+However, in the next chapters of this thesis a new energy consumption models are developed, and how these
+energy models are used for modeling and measuring the energy consumptions by parallel iterative methods running on both homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures. Furthermore, these energy models use in a methods for optimizing both of the energy consumption and the performance of the iterative message passing applications.
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