This document discusses parallelizing several algorithms and applications including k-means clustering, frequent itemset mining, integer programming, computer chess, and support vector machines (SVM). For k-means and frequent itemset mining, the algorithms can be parallelized by partitioning the data across processors and performing partial computations locally before combining results with an allreduce operation. Computer chess can be parallelized by exploring different game tree branches simultaneously on different processors. SVM problems involve large dense matrices that are difficult to solve in parallel directly due to their size exceeding memory; alternative approaches include solving smaller subproblems independently.