parallel processor

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parallel
adjective
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/ˈpær.ə.lel/us
/ˈper.ə.lel/
If two or more lines, streets, etc. are parallel, the distance between them is the same all along ...
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processor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses.ər/us
/ˈprɑː.ses.ɚ/
the part of a computer that performs operations on the information that is put ...
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The code was developed specifically for distributed memoryparallelprocessorarrays.
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His thesis described parallel programming language,parallelprocessorcomputer and a basis for a network architecture, which orients itself at data flow.
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As aparallelprocessor, it acts on all of the cells containing that content at once.
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This way it allows a network of heterogeneous machines to be used as a single distributedparallelprocessor.
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It can be described as turning general purpose chips into massive parallel processors that can be used for high performance computing.
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There are two ways parallel processors communicate, shared memory or message passing.
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In addition, the need for atomic operations during pointer updates on parallel processors is eliminated.
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The main challenge for next generation massively parallel processors is data bandwidth, not computational resources.
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They have also developed algorithms for partitioning a signal flow graph to run on multiple parallel processors and multiple devices in real time.
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Designs of parallel processors use special buses like crossbar so that the communication overhead will be small but it is the parallel algorithm that decides the volume of the traffic.
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One of the proposed models is that computations are distributed across parallel processors like computers; with this model, computer processing is a model for computations performed by the brain.
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Programming massively parallel processors: a hands-on approach.
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