parallel computing

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parallel computing (uncountable)

  1. A type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.
    • 2003, Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis, Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 4:
      Some of the most impressive applications of massively parallel computing have been in the context of wide-area distributed platforms.

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