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English Parallelism

Flynn Taxonomy

Flynn taxonomy is a classification of computer architecture that divides different architectures depending on the pluralism of instruction and data streams and threads. Practically the instructions number refers to the number of arithmetic logic units (ALU) working together, and data refers to the registers data being processed by the ALU. Single instruction stream single data […]

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English Parallelism

Types of parallelism

Parallelism can be defined as the concept of dividing big problems into smaller ones, and solve the smaller problems by multiple processors at the same time. Parallelism is sometimes confused with concurrency even though it’s not necessarily that every parallel processing is considered concurrent, some types of parallelism like bit-level parallelism is not concurrent. Also, […]