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> The PRAM model seems a little dated by modern standards

I was just curious to ask, as opposed to what all models?




Basically a GPU, as that's the highly parallel machine you're most likely to program any time soon. I'm not sure there's anything quite like PRAM in the sense that it's a mathematically abstract model that nonetheless captures something interesting about performance, but Volkov's thesis is a pretty good start for modeling both the memory and ALU cost of a GPU computation:

https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Volkov_b...




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