Architectural Patterns for Parallel Programming Models for Performance Estimation

my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. 3Abstract Parallel Programming relies on the coordination of computing resources, so that they simultaneously work towards a common objective. Achieving this requires extra effort from the software designer, because of the increased complexity involved. Furthermore, as Parallel Programming is considered a means to improve performance, the software designer has to consider sophisticated and cost-effective practices and techniques for performance measurement and analysis. In particular, it is of great interest to obtain per-formance information during design stages and before implementation, since this enables the software developer to select the organisation of computations and communications between components. The Architectural Performance Modelling Method is presented as a criteria for selecting the organisation of a parallel program based on estimating its probable per-formance. By considering a parallel program as an instance of a software architecture, i