Explicit Parallelism
Even before the development of the Intel® Itanium® processor family[19] and its EPIC architecture, the business processes in an enterprise environment were massively parallel, though most computers in use to manage these business processes today are not. Things don't happen in a sequential order—multiple things are happening at the same time throughout the entire day in order for the business to run smoothly.
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Were the world to run in a purely sequential manner, output would be reduced to a crawl. Thus, the concept of doing things in parallel at the microprocessor level makes intuitive ...
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