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91Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… …
92Parallel 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… …
93SWAR — OverviewSWAR is an acronym for SIMD Within A Register. SIMD, in turn, stands for Single Instruction, Multiple Data.Many modern general purpose computer processors have some provisions for SIMD, in the form of a group of registers and instructions …
94CUDA — Developer(s) Nvidia Corporation Stable release 4.0 / May 17 2011; 6 months ago (May 17 2011) Operating system Windows XP and later Mac OS X Linux …
95Task parallelism — (also known as function parallelism and control parallelism) is a form of parallelization of computer code across multiple processors in parallel computing environments. Task parallelism focuses on distributing execution processes (threads)… …
96Computer cluster — Not to be confused with data cluster. A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other… …
97System on a chip — The AMD Geode is an x86 compatible system on a chip A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital …
98Memory-level parallelism — or MLP is a term in computer architecture referring to the ability to have pending multiple memory operations, in particular cache misses or translation lookaside buffer misses, at the same time. In a single processor, MLP may be considered a… …
99Cray Inc. — Cray Inc. Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Para otros usos de este término, véase Cray. Cray Inc. Archivo:Cray logo.png Tipo Public (NASDAQ: CRAY) …
100Computer multitasking — In computing, multitasking is a method where multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any point in time, meaning… …
