Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. simultaneous processing by two or more processing units [syn: multiprocessing]
Wikipedia
In psychology, parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality. This becomes most important in vision, as the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion, shape, and depth. These are individually analyzed and then compared to stored memories, which helps the brain identify what you are viewing. The brain then combines all of these into the field of view that you see and comprehend. Parallel processing has been linked, by some experimental psychologists, to the Stroop effect. This is a continual and seamless operation.
In digital signal processing (DSP), parallel processing is a technique duplicating function units to operate different tasks (signals) simultaneously. Accordingly, we can perform the same processing for different signals on the corresponding duplicated function units. Further, due to the features of parallel processing, the parallel DSP design often contains multiple outputs, resulting in higher throughput than not parallel.
Parallel processing may refer to:
- Parallel computing
- Parallel processing (DSP implementation) – Parallel processing in digital signal processing
- Parallel processing (psychology)
- Parallel process - Client/supervisor
Usage examples of "parallel processing".
Over the years millions of dollars would go into research on subjects such as specialized parallel processing algorithms, which would give computers the superspeed needed to break increasingly powerful foreign encryption systems.
But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works (there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters), there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase, and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally.
They pressed into service vast complexes of parallel processing arrays.
Organisms that could chunk could also hold separate and simultaneous concepts in mind, and that was something that electronic Als could manage only through massively parallel processing, and then incompletely at best.
We wrote what are called distributed parallel processing or agent-based programs.
Then he went back out to the elevators and down past the Primary Operations Level, where the main banks of massively parallel processing lattices took up almost the entire floor, past the Interface Level with galleries of COSMOS coupling hardware for up to fifty real-world surrogates, past the Monitoring &.
For example, the parallel processing provided by qubits can be used to decompose numbers into their prime factors.
It was one of those rare occasions when he envied Mord's capability for parallel processing.
They could compute portions of themselves, running their layer-minds as parallel processing paths.
The machines AI, however, was partly the result of truly massive parallel processing through hyper-redundant molecular circuitry, and there was no reason why it shouldnt be able to pay full attention to numerous simultaneous conversations.