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T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:13, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

GPU (SLI, Crossfire)

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. [https://graphicscardhub.com/nvidia-sli/ ... 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)

A more fundamental classification

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)

Parallel vs. Concurrent

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

:On further thought, should we really be making the distinction between parallel and concurrent? Digital27 (talk) 16:54, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

::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)