parallel-computing machine
1Parallel Virtual Machine — NOTOC The Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool for parallel networking of computers. It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous Unix and/or Windows machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor. Thus large… …
2Parallel computing — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing …
3United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory — US Navy bombe at the National Cryptologic Museum …
4Parallel 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,… …
5Parallel Random Access Machine — In computer science, Parallel Random Access Machine (PRAM) is a shared memory abstract machine. As its name indicates, the PRAM was intended as the parallel computing analogy to the random access machine (RAM). In the same way, that the RAM is… …
6computing — noun 1. the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods • Syn: ↑calculation, ↑computation • Derivationally related forms: ↑computational (for: ↑computation), ↑compute …
7History of computing hardware — Computing hardware is a platform for information processing (block diagram) The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware… …
8Parallel programming model — A parallel programming model is a set of software technologies to express parallel algorithms and match applications with the underlying parallel systems. It encloses the areas of applications, programming languages, compilers, libraries,… …
9Distributed 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 …
10Beowulf (computing) — Originally referring to a specific computer built in 1994, Beowulf is a class of computer clusters similar to the original NASA system. They are high performance parallel computing clusters of inexpensive personal computer hardware. The name… …
