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Despite five decades of research, parallel computing remains an exotic, frontier technology on the fringes of mainstream computing. Its much-heralded triumph over sequential computing has yet to materialize. This is in spite of the fact that the processing needs of many applications continue to eclipse the capabilities of sequential computing.
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Dunn, I.N., Meyer, G.G.L. (2003). Parallel Computing. In: A Parallel Algorithm Synthesis Procedure for High-Performance Computer Architectures. Series in Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8650-4_2
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