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MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING [1 record]

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Record 1 2002-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

Processing of symbolic data structures by means of simultaneous execution of hardware operations on multiple processors with small memories. [ISO/IEC 2nd WD 2382-34: 1994 (E/F)].

CONT

Massive parallel processing approaches begin with a critique of ... "von-Newmann style" symbolic processing. They use machines involving many independent processors (perhaps as many as a million) to carry out many processes at one moment in time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Traitement de l'information à l'aide de machines parallèles comportant des dizaines de milliers de processeurs.

OBS

Certains auteurs parlent à ce sujet de «traitement ultraparallèle» ou «intensivement parallèle».

Spanish

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