multiple processors

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multiple
adjective
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/ˈmʌl.tɪ.pəl/us
/ˈmʌl.tə.pəl/
very many of the same type, or of ...
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processor
noun[C]
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/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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Its most common use is in embedded systems, especially those with multiple processors.
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It can be called simultaneously on multiple processors, yet it does not require the caller to hold a lock.
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In practice, there are often multiple processors involved in the creation of a digital image. 5.
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It includes multiple processors, multiple memory banks, and multiple input-output devices with interfaces for multiple disk drives.
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Custom-programmed software can be written or modified to use multiple threads, so that it can make use of multiple processors.
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The fetch-and-add instruction allows any processor to atomically increment a value in memory, preventing suchmultipleprocessorcollisions.
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It aggressively exploits the parallelism made possible by sending requests to multiple remote data sources simultaneously and by scheduling tasks to run on multiple processors.
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Scheduling hard real-time constrained periodic tasks on multiple processors.
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It did not exploit parallelism even when it was run on a large machine with multiple processors.
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In particular, the determination of groups of element stiffness matrices can be allocated across multiple processors while incurring only a small computational overhead.
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By partitioning either the query or target databases, one can divvy up the search space amongst multiple processors.
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Distributed programs necessarily manipulate state on multiple processors.
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There is one disadvantage, though: a user-space threads package will not normally be able to take advantage of multiple processors on the host machine.
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By virtue of the fact that the operating system is handling the concurrency, the separate process model will automatically take advantage of multiple processors if the operating system supports them.
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Engineering high-performance parallel programs is hard: not only must a correct, efficient and inherently-parallel algorithm be developed, but the computations must be effectively and efficiently coordinated across multiple processors.
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The program emphasizes sound search and a good use of multiple processors.
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Parallel mesh generation methods decompose the original mesh generation problem into smaller subproblems which are solved (meshed) in parallel using multiple processors or threads.
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Such coherence protocols can, when they work well, provide extremely high-performance access to shared information between multiple processors.
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It is often used in parallel computing to predict the theoretical maximum speedup using multiple processors.
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It will also make use of multiple processors, where present.
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