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Evolution of Clustering and Parallel Computing

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The parallel execution of code within applications is a standard feature for higher performance, responsiveness, or both. Parallel code, the building block for parallel computing, is achieved by multiple processes, multiple threads, co-routines and similar programming techniques. Typically, parallel code is assisted by hardware such as multiple processors per node or multiple processor cores per processor (virtual processors), and otherwise by the operating system’s process scheduler (pseudoparallelism).

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    Andriy Luntovskyy

  2. Service Prototyping Lab, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Josef Spillner

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Luntovskyy, A., Spillner, J. (2017). Evolution of Clustering and Parallel Computing. In: Architectural Transformations in Network Services and Distributed Systems. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14842-3_3

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