distributed parallel processing
1Parallel processing — is also another term for parallel computing.Parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli. This becomes most important in vision, as the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion,… …
2Massive parallel processing — (MPP) is a term used in computer architecture to refer to a computer system with many independent arithmetic units or entire microprocessors, that run in parallel. The term massive connotes hundreds if not thousands of such units. Early examples… …
3Distributed GIS — concerns itself with GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. Examples of distributed systems are web based GIS,… …
4Distributed computing — is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal …
5Parallel rendering — (or Distributed rendering) is the application of parallel programming to the computational domain of computer graphics. Rendering graphics can require massive computational resources for complex scenes that arise in scientific visualization,… …
6processing — pro‧ces‧sing [ˈprəʊsesɪŋ ǁ ˈprɑː ] noun [uncountable] 1. MANUFACTURING when a substance is changed as part of the manufacture of a product: • Fire broke out at a food processing plant in Hamlet, N.C. 2. COMPUTING the use of information, figures… …
7Parallel computing — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing …
8Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… …
9Distributed control system — Part of a series of articles on Industry Manufacturing methods Batch production • Job production Continuous production Improvement method …
10Parallel database — A parallel database system seeks to improve performance through parallelization of various operations, such as loading data, building indexes and evaluating queries. Although data may be stored in a distributed fashion, the distribution is… …
