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Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
v980105,
5 January 1998
Parallel Processing refers to the concept of speeding-up the
execution of a program by dividing the program into multiple fragments that can
execute simultaneously, each on its own processor. A program being executed
across N processors might execute N times faster than it would
using a single processor. This document discusses the four basic approaches to
parallel processing that are available to Linux users: SMP Linux systems,
clusters of networked Linux systems, parallel execution using multimedia
instructions (i.e., MMX), and attached (parallel) processors hosted by a Linux
system.
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