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+# Optimizing the Todd-Coxeter Algorithm
+## High Performance Computing
+
+Directories `cpu-slo` and `cpu-opt` contain revisions of our CPU code. Directories `gpu-slo` and `gpu-opt` contain revisions of our GPU code.
+
+Directory `gap` contains the [GAP](https://www.gap-system.org/) code for the benchmarks we used.
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+Subdirectories of `times` contain benchmark results for each implementation.
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+`presentation.pdf` is our slide deck, and also contains tabular benchmark results.