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Skewed Data and Skewed Parallelism

Erik Darling has a new slide deck. This video focuses on how skewed data can potentially lead to parallelism not distributing the data on different CPU threads effectively. Erik demonstrates how you can identify this issue in practice, though solving the problem will come in a later video. It’s an interesting scenario and stick around for a poke at an argument Pedro Lopes has made.

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