Parallel computing

Parallel computing is the simultaneous execution of the same task (split up and specially adapted) on multiple processors in order to obtain faster results.

Performance vs. cost

While a system of n parallel processors is less efficient than one n-times-faster processor, the parallel system is often cheaper to build. For tasks which require very large amounts of computation, have time constraints on completion and especially for those which can be divided into n execution threads, parallel computation is an excellent solution. In fact, in recent years, most high performance computing systems, also known as supercomputers, have a parallel architecture

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High performance computing

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