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Solving a problem with multiple computers or computers made up of multiple processors. It is an umbrella term for a variety of architectures, including symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), clusters of SMP systems, massively parallel processors (MPPs) and grid computing. See SMP, MPP, pipeline processing, array processor, vector processor, hypercube and grid computing.
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Some of the major areas relate to observation techniques and instrumentation, including remote-sensing from satellites and equipment, such as Doppler radars, automated sounding and measuring systems over land, rivers, lakes and seas; telecommunications, including the Internet; massively parallel computing systems and low-cost mainframe computers and workstations; and data handling and storage systems. has taken a giant step toward massively parallel computing with the installation of a 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer. The machine, which crunches numbers with a technique called massively parallel computing, was built by connecting thousands of the same kind of Intel Pentium Pro microchips found in standard computers. |
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Massively parallel computing