massively parallel
adjective
: of, relating to, or being a computer system that uses a large number of separate processors simultaneously to increase power and speed
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The deep learning approach leveraging massively parallel computation made the metrics go up, but the teams at Meta didn’t know why one piece of content was winning over another because the decisions were being made inside the deep learning black box.
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Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, enabling massively parallel computation relying on purely quantum effects.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2018
The fast-growing demand for massively parallel compute power driven by artificial neural networks exacerbates this situation even further, and the appetite for energy is skyrocketing.
—Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
GPUs are well-suited for neural networks because their massively parallel architecture performs the necessary matrix multiplications involved in running neural networks faster than conventional processors.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
Unlike computers, our brains are massively parallel in their organization, concurrently running many millions of separate processes.
—Parashkev Nachev, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2016
That’s the massively parallel supercomputers, which dominated until recently.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
GPUs perform massively parallel processing tasks, but there is memory access latency, and ML is already pushing the limits of external memory bandwidth.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
Combining this storage model with massively parallel processing (MPP) can supercharge AI and analytics capabilities by enabling DevOps teams to query data simultaneously without needing to create an index or use a schema.
—Bernd Greifeneder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
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Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, enabling massively parallel computation relying on purely quantum effects.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2018
The fast-growing demand for massively parallel compute power driven by artificial neural networks exacerbates this situation even further, and the appetite for energy is skyrocketing.
—Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
GPUs are well-suited for neural networks because their massively parallel architecture performs the necessary matrix multiplications involved in running neural networks faster than conventional processors.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
Unlike computers, our brains are massively parallel in their organization, concurrently running many millions of separate processes.
—Parashkev Nachev, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2016
That’s the massively parallel supercomputers, which dominated until recently.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
GPUs perform massively parallel processing tasks, but there is memory access latency, and ML is already pushing the limits of external memory bandwidth.
—Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
Combining this storage model with massively parallel processing (MPP) can supercharge AI and analytics capabilities by enabling DevOps teams to query data simultaneously without needing to create an index or use a schema.
—Bernd Greifeneder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
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