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From: narayan@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Pankaj Narayan)
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Subject: Re: fine->medium->coarse
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	Almasi and Gottlieb's book : Higly Parallel Computing
	QA76.5 A385

	Page 15:

	The *granularity* or *grain size* is the average subtask SIZE, measured
	in instructions executed (on some agreed-on serial computer)

	The *degree* or *extent* of parallelism is the NUMBER of subtasks
	available

	*Level* (as in 'procedure-level parallelism, expression-level
	parallelism' etc., refers to the SOURCE of the parallelism in
	what was originally a serial program.

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	Hope this helps.


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