Massive parallelism

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Massive parallelism is a term used in computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design. It signifies the presence of several ("many") independent arithmetic units, that run in parallel.

Things exhibiting massive parallelism