Parallel Computing

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Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many instructions are carried out simultaneously operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently ("in parallel"). There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level parallelism, instruction-level parallelism, data parallelism and task parallelism.

Parallel computers can be roughly classified according to the level at which the hardware supports parallelism – with multi-core and multi-processor computers having multiple processing elements within a single machine, while computer clusters, massive parallel processing (MPPs) and grids use multiple computers to work on the same task.

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