Concurrent Computing Tutorials

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

Many definitions and approaches exist for tackling the concept of parallelization and workload distribution in the cloud (Here's a particularly helpful Stack Exchange post on the subject). To help make the content easier to understand when discussing concurrent computing paradigms, this documentation refers to:

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

• Distributed: Using multiple machines (in this 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.