Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A method of computing in which different parts of a task are distributed between two or more similar central processing units, allowing the computer to complete operations more quickly and to handle larger, more complex procedures.
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- noun
Computation using one more than oneprocessor .
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- noun simultaneous processing by two or more processing units
Etymologies
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Examples
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C extensions, such as multiprocessing, ctypes, cStringIO, et cetera can be found in
Planet Python 2009
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Vlad: Python 2.6 and 3.0 contain a "multiprocessing" module that can help here.
O'Reilly News 2009
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Major improvements to the design infrastructure, such as multiprocessing and precise correlation throughout the integrated design environment from implementation to signoff have enabled both tremendous performance improvements and greatly enhanced quality of results.
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PlayBook features a 1GHz dual core processor taking advantage of symmetric multiprocessing.
With PlayBook, RIM jumps into tablet game Paul Krill 2010
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RIM touts the PlayBook -- due out in early 2011 at an unannounced price -- as "the first multiprocessing, multitasking, uncompromised browsing, enterprise-ready professional-grade tablet."
RIM announces PlayBook tablet Rob Pegoraro 2010
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It aids developers in building parallel C++ or C applications for multicore or multiprocessing systems.
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The challenge of multiprocessing has been around for decades.
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The challenge of multiprocessing has been around for decades.
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The CPU core and all on-chip hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces are connected through a 64-bit AXI bus running at 166MHz, allowing ample input/output bandwidth for handling the multiprocessing requirements in real-life applications.
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Chick with PhizzleDizzle, a blog about the world of Computer Science, writes about Kunle Olukoton, the brains behind Sun Niagara and server-class chip multiprocessing platform.
Archive 2009-02-01 DNLee 2009
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