parallel processing

parallel processing

n.

The simultaneous processing of different tasks by two or more microprocessors, as by a single computer with more than one central processing unit or by multiple computers connected together in a network. Also called parallel computing.

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parallel processing

n

(Computer Science) the performance by a computer system of two or more simultaneous operations

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parallel processing - simultaneous processing by two or more processing units multiprocessing data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information

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Translations

parallel processing

n (Comput) → Parallelverarbeitung f

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