Introduction

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.

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References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Computing