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A '''parallel programming model''' is a set of software technologies to express [[parallel algorithm]]s and match applications with the underlying parallel systems. It encloses the areas of [[application]]s, [[programming language]]s, [[compiler]]s, [[library (computer science)|libraries]], [[communications system]]s, and [[parallel I/O]]. PeopleDue to the difficulties in [[automatic parallelization]] today, people have to choose a proper parallel programming model or a form of mixture of them to develop their parallel applications on a particular platform.

Parallel models are implemented in several ways: as libraries invoked from traditional sequential languages, as language extensions, or complete new execution models. They are also roughly categoried for two kinds of systems: shared-memory system and distributed-memory system, though the lines between them are largely blurred nowadays.

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* H. Shan and J. Pal Singh. Comparison of Three Programming Models for Adaptive Applications on the Origin 2000. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 62:241–266, 2002.

* About [[structured parallel programming]]: Davide Pasetto and [[Marco Vanneschi]]. ''[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=898142&coll=&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 Machine independent Analytical models for cost evaluation of template--based programs]'', [[University of Pisa]], 1996

==See also ==

[[Automatic parallelization]]

==External links ==