parallel computing

Programming paradigm in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously

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Also known as parallelism · parallel processing · parallelization · parallel computation · parallel execution

Instance of: programming paradigm
, programming model
Subclass of: concurrent computing

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Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has gained broader interest due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. As power consumption by computers has become a concern in recent years, parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors.

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Partially coincident with: concurrent computing
Union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: explicit parallelism, implicit parallelism
Has characteristic: simultaneity characteristic of: operation

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