PARALLEL PROCESSING

the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. Parallel processing requires two or more interconnected processors, each of which executes a portion of the task; some supercomputer parallel-processing systems have as many as 256,000 microprocessors. The processors access data through shared memory. The efficiency of parallel processing is dependent upon the development of programming languages that optimize the division of the tasks among the processors.

See E. Rietman, Exploring Parallel Processing (1990); K. M. Chandy and S. Taylor, An Introduction to Parallel Programming (1992); D. I. Moldovon, Parallel Processing from Applications to Systems (1993); G. S. Almasi and A. Gottlieb, Highly Parallel Computing (1993).

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Parallel Models of Associative Memory
Book by Geoffrey E. Hinton, James A. Anderson; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989
Subjects: Associative Storage, Brain--Mathematical Models, Memory--Mathematical Models, Neural Computers, Parallel Processing (Electronic Computers)
...brain makes extensive use of parallel processing, whereas AI models have tended...because AI researchers have not had parallel machines to work with, and it...difference between parallel and serial processing is not a fundamental one. Basic...
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Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing: An Introduction
Book by Roy Lachman, Earl C. Butterfield, Janet L. Lachman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1979
Subjects: Cognition, Human Information Processing
...theoretic analogy. VIII. Serial or Parallel Processing? A. Neissers Work Although...typically found support for serial processing, Neisser 1964 used a visual search task that suggested parallel processing. This apparent conflict stimulated...
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Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics: Basic Issues
Book by Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link, James T. Townsend; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992
Subjects: Cognition, Human Information Processing, Psychophysics
...with the case of independent parallel processing where both processes must...completed. In standard parallel processing, both processes begin at...consideration--in the preceding, parallel versus serial processing systems, and more generally...
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The Processing of Information and Structure
Book by Wendell R. Garner; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1974
Subjects: Human Information Processing
...Much research on information processing with multidimensional stimuli has focused primarily on the processing alternatives, especially the two alternatives of serial versus parallel processing. I would like to comment briefly...
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Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing
Book by Yorick Wilks; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989
Subjects: Natural Language Processing (Computer Science)
...algorithm. So, in a sense, it was an attempt to provide a general way of doing parallel processing in a world in which everybody knew that parallel processing wasnt and never would be possible. The other side of nondeterminism, of course...
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Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS
Journal article by Yang Cheng; Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, 2002
Subjects: Geographic information systems--Research, parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS (Book)--Reviews
Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS by...successful and active areas of parallel computation are physics...fundamentals. In a typical parallel computation project...skilled staff in parallel processing, there are even fewer...
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Parallel Processing of Stimulus Features during Rsvp: Evidence from the Second Response
Journal article by Juan Botella, María Narváez, Manuel Suero, James F. Juola; Perception and Psychophysics, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Parallel processing, Random variables
Parallel Processing of Stimulus Features during Rsvp...human temporal capacity limitations in processing environmental stimuli, and effects...paradigm will help us test a core idea of parallel models, for which the evidence is...
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Research on Visual Word Recognition: from Verbal Learning to Parallel Distributed Processing
Journal article by Chris M. Herdman; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 53, 1999
...Learning to Parallel Distributed Processing by Chris M...that sublexical processing is serial is...is serial or parallel. Indeed, attempts...mechanisms of a parallel processing system...work on word processing. Models and...
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Parallel Central Processing between Tasks: Evidence from Lateralized Readiness Potentials
Journal article by Mei-Ching Lien, Eric Ruthruff, Shulan Hsieh, Yen-Ting Yu; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol. 14, 2007
Subjects: Studies, Task analysis, Value added
Parallel Central Processing between Tasks: Evidence from...Rather than conclude that parallel central processing had occurred, they instead...interference and perhaps deter parallel central processing (see Ruthruff, Johnston...
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Orthographic Neighbourhood Effects in Parallel Distributed Processing Models
Journal article by Christopher R. Sears, Yasushi Hino, Stephen J. Lupker; Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 53, 1999
Subjects: Cognition & reasoning, Reading, Reading processes, Recognition, Studies, Theory, Word recognition
...Orthographic Neighbourhood Effects in Parallel Distributed Processing Models by Christopher R. Sears...neighbours in parallel distributed processing models (i.e., Plaut...neighbours that produces a processing delay. Thus, a basic prediction...
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Parallel Processing Is Speedy and Efficient
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 126, June 1998
Subjects: Parallel processing, Parallel programming (Computer science)--Research, Software
Parallel Processing Is Speedy and Efficient. The technology...fastest computers so fast--parallel processing--is starting to wend its way from...programs so they can run on a parallel processing computer, which makes the program...
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Re-engineering in Practice
Magazine article; Chief Executive, November 1994
Subjects: Allstate Insurance Co, Business process reengineering, Client server computing, Customer services, Implementations, Information technology, J B Hunt Transport Inc, Manycompanies, Parallel processing, Sabre Technology Group, United States
...centers has installed the Parallel Transaction Server...end, all online claims processing will be performed in the parallel-processing environment. The servers...as possible into the parallel-processing environment, Lippard...
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The Teraflops Race
Magazine article by P. J. Skerrett; Popular Science, Vol. 240, March 1992
Subjects: Computers, Parallel processing, Speed, Supercomputers
...low-cost microprocessors together in parallel to create super supercomputers that divide...relatively new architecture, called massively parallel processing, to provide the needed speed. "Parallel processing is the only route to teraflops...
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Taking Charge of Your Destiny: the New Age of Enterprise Computing
Magazine article; Chief Executive, November 1994
Subjects: Client server computing, Information management, Information technology, Parallel processing, Trends, United States
...throughout a company and beyond. PARALLEL PROCESSING The new, continually evolving...mainframe computing. Parallel-processing technology distributes computing...about technical jargon such as parallel processing and client/server. They...
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A.i. for $600, Alex
Magazine article by Jonathon Kates; Popular Science, Vol. 275, September 2009
Subjects: Computer science, Parallel processing
...evolved out of IBMs DeepQA research on naturallanguage processing, a means of digitally parsing the information in...project leader on DeepQA. Running on petaflops of parallel processing power, the computers software will interpret the...
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ASUS Utilizes New Processors and Built-In Parallel Computing Support to Deliver Incredible Performance
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 14, 2009
Subjects: Intel Corp., Semiconductor industry, Supercomputers
...Processors and Built-In Parallel Computing Support to Deliver...leverages the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture to...Computing Power with CUDA Parallel ProcessingWith NVIDIA Tesla...mdash;from 960 parallel processing cores. The P7P55 WS SuperComputer...
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Business Beat; Pakistan-Philippine Parallels
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 17, 2008
Subjects: Gross domestic product, Small and medium sized companies
Business Beat; Pakistan-Philippine Parallels. Byline: Melito Salazar Jr. THE continuing news of political...weaving, marble and granite production, dates and apple processing, wooden furniture making, leather garments, ceramic kilns...
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Business Beat; Pakistan-Philippine Parallels
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 18, 2008
Subjects: Gross domestic product, Small and medium sized companies
Business Beat; Pakistan-Philippine Parallels. Byline: Melito Salazar Jr. The continuing news of political...weaving, marble and granite production, dates and apple processing, wooden furniture making, leather garments, ceramic kilns...
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PARALYSED BRITAIN! before Casting Your Vote, Read This Nightmare Account of the Last Time We Had a Hung Parliament - and the Chilling Parallels with Today
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 5, 2010
...Last Time We Had a Hung Parliament - and the Chilling Parallels with Today. Byline: DOMINIC SANDBROOK AS OPINION polls...ministers went on the picket lines at the Grunwick photo-processing plant in North London where a bitter strike, whipped...
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Food Processors Seek Representation in Negotiations to Cut Sugar Tariffs
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2011
Subjects: Food processing machinery--Taxation, International economic relations, Sugar--Taxation, Tariffs
...export revenue-generating sector competitive. The food processing sector which has sugar as 30 to 50 percent of input cost will...will be happy to still use Quedan D to show that we are a parallel collaborator. We want to be a sustainable market for the...
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Parallel Processing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARALLEL PROCESSING the concurrent or simultaneous execution...a conventional computer . Parallel processing requires two or more interconnected...task; some supercomputer parallel-processing systems have hundreds of thousands...
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Supercomputer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...supercomputers. One, called massively parallel processing (MPP), is to chain together...microprocessors utilizing parallel processing techniques. A variant of this...programs written for parallel processing. The other approach, called...
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Computer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...microprocessors together in a parallel-processing system has enabled smaller systems...scientists to utilize the unemployed processing power of connected computers...scientific investigation, data-processing and word-processing applications...
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Grid Computing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of...computing requires the use of parallel processing software that can divide a program...computing evolved from the parallel processing systems of the 1970s, the large...
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Computer Program
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...physical equipment used in data processing . These programming instructions...are executed sequentially; in parallel processing the operations are allocated...input and output operations. Processing programs are those whose execution...
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