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  2. Multiprocessor system architecture - Wikipedia

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    A multiprocessor system is defined as "a system with more than one processor", and, more precisely, "a number of central processing units linked together to enable parallel processing to take place". [1] [2] [3] The key objective of a multiprocessor is to boost a system's execution speed. The other objectives are fault tolerance and application ...

  3. Multiprocessing - Wikipedia

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    Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. [1] [2] The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them.

  4. Multithreading (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, hand-tuned assembly language programs using MMX or AltiVec extensions and performing data prefetches (as a good video encoder might) do not suffer from cache misses or idle computing resources. Such programs therefore do not benefit from hardware multithreading and can indeed see degraded performance due to contention for ...

  5. Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia

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    The motherboard of an HP Z820 workstation with two CPU sockets, each with their own set of eight DIMM slots surrounding the socket.. Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) is a computer memory design used in multiprocessing, where the memory access time depends on the memory location relative to the processor.

  6. Symmetric multiprocessing - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a symmetric multiprocessing system. Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing [1] (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all ...

  7. Multi-core processor - Wikipedia

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    The parallelization of software is a significant ongoing topic of research. Cointegration of multiprocessor applications provides flexibility in network architecture design. Adaptability within parallel models is an additional feature of systems utilizing these protocols. [6]

  8. Single instruction, multiple data - Wikipedia

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    Single instruction, multiple data. Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy.SIMD can be internal (part of the hardware design) and it can be directly accessible through an instruction set architecture (ISA), but it should not be confused with an ISA.

  9. Concurrent computing - Wikipedia

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    Join Java—concurrent, based on Java language; Joule—dataflow-based, communicates by message passing; Joyce—concurrent, teaching, built on Concurrent Pascal with features from CSP by Per Brinch Hansen; LabVIEW—graphical, dataflow, functions are nodes in a graph, data is wires between the nodes; includes object-oriented language