For this quiz, be able to:


-- Read and write parallel programs that use shared memory
or message passing in OpenMP.

-- Identify and avoid the main pitfalls of parallel computing:
deadlock, sequential execution, race conditions.

-- Measure speedup and efficiency.

-- Use Amdahl's law to bound parallel execution time.  
   (textbook p.545 or Wikipedia)

-- Distinguish between shared memory computing and distributed
memory computing and identify advantages/disadvantages.

-- Distinguish between SIMD, MIMD, SPMD programming and
identify advantages/disadvantages.