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Parallel Processing: (1) An architecture within a single computer that performs more than one operation at the same time. See pipeline processing, array processor and vector processor.; Full Parallel Processing Definition >>

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Cache Optimization for Coarse Grain Task parallel processing Using Inter-Array Padding: The wide use of multiprocessor system has been making automatic parallelizing compilers more important. To improve the performance of multiprocessor system more by compiler, multigrain parallelization is important. In multigrain parallelization, coarse grain task parallelism among loops and subroutines and near fine grain parallelism among statements is used in addition...; Tags: Grain, Optimization, Compiler, Parallel Processing, Multiprocessor, Development Tools, Processors, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-12-01
parallel processing Applied to the Design of Concrete Encased Grounding Electrodes: This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This...; Tags: Electrode, Sao Paulo, Parallel Processing; White papers 2007-12-01
Optimising Data Movement Rates for parallel processing Applications on Graphics Processors: Graphics Processing UnitsGPUs are starting to play an increasingly important role in non-graphical applications which are highly parallelisable. With the latest graphics cards boasting a theoretical 165GFlops and 54GB/s memory bandwidth spread across 48 ALUs it is easy to see why. The GPU architecture is particularly suited to the parallel...; Tags: Processor, Parallel Processing, Graphics, GPU, Trinity College Dublin, Graphics Processing Unit Architecture; White papers 2007-12-01
parallel processing Using Data Localization for MPEG2 Encoding on OSCAR Chip Multiprocessor: Need for efficient processing of multimedia applications on PCs, mobile phones, games and so on have been increasing. Especially, low cost, low power consumption and high performance processors for multi-media applications have been expected. To satisfy the demands, chip multiprocessor architectures which allow giving scalability using multigrain parallelism are attracting...; Tags: MPEG-2, Parallel Processing, Chip, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-12-01
Efficiency of Distributed parallel processing Using Java RMI, Sockets, and CORBA: Software development is proceeding at a remarkable rate. Many new tools are available to the researcher in parallel and distributed processing. These tools include PVM, MPI, and Java. But, recently, a more general tool, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, CORBA has appeared. Since it allows a general view of remote...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Java RMI, Corba, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software; White papers 2007-12-01

Allocating and Scheduling Hard Real-Time Tasks on a parallel processing Platform: This paper addresses the issues of scheduling and allocation/configuration of a point-to-point parallel system, for safety-critical hard real-time systems. Three specific topics are considered: an analysable computational model that has sufficient expressive power whilst retaining flexibility for allocation; a scheduling approach that allows the worst case response times for each...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Allocation, Case Study, University Of York; White papers 2007-12-01
Open source development is parallel processing in action: Open source development is parallel processing in actionYou should investigate git and what role it will play in large"massively parallel" open source projects like the Linux kernel.Have you seen the video of Linus at Google talking about git?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8Standard issue for open source commiters: svn, git, cvsntNo I hadn't. ThanksI thought...; Tags: open source, git, Open Source Development, parallel processing, Git; Discussion threads 2007-10-24
True parallel processing in Artificial Neural Networks: The area of artificial neural networks, which dates back to the early twentieth century, could only offer positive contributions to technology after the back-propagation algorithm was proposed in 1986. In this note an alternative algorithm to the gradient descent used in back-propagation is proposed. This algorithm is based on the...; Tags: Algorithm, Network, Neural Network, Parallel Processing, Emerald, Engineering; White papers 2007-10-22
Generic parallel processing Techniques for Nanoscale Spin-Wave Architectures: This paper studies the algorithm design aspects of three newly developed spin-wave architectures. The architectures are capable of simultaneously transmitting multiple signals using different frequencies, and allow for concurrent read/write operations. Using such features, the paper introduces a set of generic parallel processing techniques that can be used for routing...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Architecture, University Of California, Productivity, Engineering; White papers 2007-08-21
Intelligent Perceptual Information parallel processing System Controlled by Mathematical AIM Model: This paper studies an intelligent perceptual information processing system in which plural processing can run in parallel. The proposed mathematical Activation-Input-Modulation AIM model controls each execution frequency of plural processing independently based on degrees of stimuli detected by external sensors. When external stimuli are detected by some of external sensors,...; Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, Sensor, Parallel Processing, Information, University Of Tsukuba; White papers 2007-07-27
A Practical Application for Grid Computing: Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing HPC environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable...; Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Storage, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Computing; White papers 2007-06-01
A Generic Method of parallel processing in Base SAS 8 and 9: Parallel processing or multi-threading a SAS job is a mode of execution in which two or more portions of a job run in parallel streams to accelerate processing and reduce the real time to completion. Performance gain is achieved by simultaneously using multiple processors which can benefit from added CPU...; Tags: SAS Institute, Parallel Processing, Multi-threading; White papers 2007-05-14
Massively parallel processing on a Chip: MppSoC is a SIMD architecture composed of a grid of processors and memories connected by a X-Net neighbourhood network and a general purpose global router. MppSoC is an evolution of the famous massively parallel systems proposed at the end of the eighties. This paper claims that today such a machine...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Association For Computing Machinery, Chip, MppSoC, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-09
Implement parallel processing in Your Java Applications: Computing is moving toward multi-core systems which allows the containing computer to exhibit the same thread-level parallelism as a system with multiple CPUs, which represents a huge benefit in overall system throughput for properly designed applications. With manufacturers offering systems with more than one multi-core CPU - and Azul Systems...; Tags: Java Application, Java, Parallel Processing, Jupitermedia Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-04-10
The Future Data Center - Part 1: Multi-Core Processors: Multi-core microprocessors promise substantially improved system performance with commensurately reduced power and cooling requirements. However, multiprocessor programming can prove a daunting activity and involve a learning curve. Some applications inherently cannot exploit multiprocessing facilities and many applications are extremely difficult to partition into parallel processing architectures. Small wonder that attempts...; Tags: Multi-core Processor, Application, Symantec Corp., Data Center, Parallel Processing, Programming, Data Centers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-01-08
A Parallel Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioner Using Algebraic Multicolor Ordering for Magnetic Finite Element Analyses: Recently, Finite Element FE analyses of magnetic fields have played a major role in the design of various electromagnetic machines. In the analyses, most computation time is consumed by the solution of large-scale sparse linear systems of equations derived from FE formulations. Algebraic Multigrid AMG techniques are known to be...; Tags: Technique, Equation, Parallel Processing, Productivity; White papers 2006-12-01
High Performance Computing: Compatible Acceleration Using Fine Grain, parallel processing: In many cases, organizations are not realizing expected performance increases when running large, complex applications on High Performance Computing HPC computers. A mismatch between existing computer architectures and the applications running on them is exacerbating the inefficiencies inherent in these systems. Tailoring a computer to meet the specific resource requirements...; Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Parallel Processing, CPU, Computer, CPU Technology, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2006-10-24
Exploiting Functional Decomposition for Efficient parallel processing of Multiple Data Analysis Queries: Reuse is a powerful method for improving system performance. This paper examines functional decomposition for improving data reuse, and therefore overall query execution performance, in the context of data analysis applications. Additionally, the paper looks at the performance effects of using various projection primitives that make it possible to transform...; Tags: Data Analysis, Performance, Parallel Processing, Satellite Data Analysis Application, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-09-07
parallel processing of Matrix Operations on the Pulsyr Configurable Architecture: The paper describes the application of a Pulsating information arrays Pulsyr for parallel calculation of matrix operations. The matrix operations form the base of many branches of scientific investigations and belong to computationally cost calculations. The Pulsyr architecture suits well image and video processing and pattern recognition problems, but parallelism...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Matrix Operation; White papers 2006-05-31
parallel processing of a Multilayer Routing Package: With the increasing density of components on Printed Circuit, Boards PCBs and the advancement of fabrication technologies for multilayer PCBs, improvement of speed and techniques for the Computer Aided Design of multilayer PCBs has become a major area of research. The paper discusses the parallel processing of layering and routing...; Tags: Parallel Processing, Concordia University, PCB, CAD, Software; White papers 2006-05-24