Concurrent Computing Tutorials

Learn important terminology before using parallel and distributed computing paradigms on the DNAnexus Platform.

There are many definitions and approaches to tackling the concept of parallelization and distributing workloads in the cloud (Here’s a particularly helpful Stack Exchange post on the subject). To help make our documentation easier to understand, when discussing concurrent computing paradigms we’ll refer to:

• Parallel: Using multiple threads or logical cores to concurrently process a workload.

• Distributed: Using multiple machines (in our case instances in the cloud) that communicate to concurrently process a workload.

Keep these formal definitions in mind as you read through the tutorials and learn how to compute concurrently on the DNAnexus platform.