In parallel processing, “different parts of a computation are executed simultaneously on separate processor hardware,” says Tao B. Schardl, a postdoctoral associate in the electrical engineering and ...

After all, the human brain is itself a massively parallel computer; writing programs that can operate in parallel is the key to making computers that seem more like us and less like machines.

Existing processors in PCs, smartphones and other devices can be supercharged for enormous power and efficiency gains using a new parallel processing ... for the more computer-science-minded ...