Talk:Parallel computing

Latest comment: 5 days ago by FrankYang43338 in topic Parallel vs. Concurrent
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GPU (SLI, Crossfire) edit

Similar principle was applied to GPUs: Scalable Link Interface, AMD CrossFireX, NVLink Bridge. It would be good to expand upon, how it is similar and how it differs from CPU parallel computing. ... It is based on the principle of parallel processing where two or more GPUs share the load... 89.201.184.8 (talk) 09:03, 26 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

A more fundamental classification edit

I'm missing a more fundamental classification of parallelism that is not rooted in implementation details of contemporary computers, or computing at all, just the possible ways to split work.

I think there are fundamentally two ways to split work so it can be worked on simultaneously:

  1. Parallel: Distribute the work so that work units take different paths.
  2. Series: Split the work in stages that can be pipelined.

Someone must have thought about this before.—Anordal (talk) 21:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Parallel vs. Concurrent edit

Based on the descriptions in these two articles, how can you be parallel without being concurrent? Digital27 (talk) 01:49, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

On further thought, should we really be making the distinction between parallel and concurrent? Digital27 (talk) 16:54, 15 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
They are different.
When two jobs run parallel they run at the same time.
When two jobs run concurrent, they share a core but appear to run at the same time. This is multitasking. FrankYang43338 (talk) 18:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply