How to Play:

📦 Click the + button inside each lane (green button) to load boxes from storage into that lane.

🎯 Use the + and − buttons below to add/remove lanes before starting.

▶️ Press Start Level to begin — workers will automatically deliver boxes to the trucks!

⏱️ Deliver all boxes within 15 seconds. Under 10s = Perfect!

Level

Time

0:00.0

Lanes

Delivered

Remaining

📦 Storage — Available Boxes (click lane's + to load)

1 lane active (Max: 3)

📚 Understanding Parallel Computing

How workers run faster together

🤔 What's Parallel Computing?

Parallel computing means breaking a big task into smaller pieces and working on them at the same time instead of one after another.

In the warehouse game:

Sequential:1 worker delivers ALL boxes alone

Parallel:Many workers deliver boxes together

Result: Parallel is MUCH faster! ⚡

⚡ The Speedup Effect

When you add more workers (processors), tasks complete faster. This is called speedup.

Key Insight

1 worker = baseline time
2 workers = roughly 2x faster
4 workers = roughly 4x faster

But there's a limit! At some point, adding more workers won't help (coordination overhead).

Sequential

1 worker

100%

Parallel

4 workers

4x faster

🌍 Real-World Parallel Computing

Parallel computing is everywhere in modern technology:

GPU Graphics: Thousands of tiny processors work on pixels simultaneously

Web Servers: Handle thousands of user requests in parallel

Video Processing: Process frames in parallel for faster rendering

Data Analysis: Analyze huge datasets faster by splitting work across cores

💡 Key Takeaways

Parallel computing breaks big tasks into smaller ones
Multiple processors work on different tasks simultaneously
This creates significant speedup in execution time
Real-world examples: GPUs, servers, video games, data processing
Not all problems can be easily parallelized (some tasks depend on each other)

🏭 Warehouse Delivery Challenge