As power consumption (and consequently heat generation) 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.Parallel computing is closely related to concurrent computing-they are frequently used together, and often conflated, though the two are distinct: it is possible to have parallelism without concurrency (such as bit-level parallelism), and concurrency without parallelism (such as multitasking by time-sharing on a single-core CPU). ![]() ![]() Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has gained broader interest due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. ![]() Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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