Parallel Computing

The Cray-1 was the first supercomputer to successfully implement the vector processor design.

In addition, parallel computing is heavily used in scientific computing to find solutions of large problems in a reasonable amount of time.

Essentially, a GPGPU pipeline is a kind of parallel processing between one or more GPUs and CPUs, with special accelerated instructions for processing image or other graphic forms of data.

distributed or grid computing can be seen as a special type of parallel computing that relies on complete computers (with onboard CPUs, storage, power supplies, network interfaces, etc.) connected to a computer network (private or public) by a conventional network interface, such as Ethernet.

one of NASA's first parallel computers

Hill specializes in computer architecture, parallel computing

parallel processing

Significant developer of the concept of the processor array

Peterson's algorithm (or Peterson's solution) is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion

emberg (Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung) known for his work on automata theory, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, man-machine interfaces and computer graphics.

Jin Yilian (Chinese: 金怡濂; pinyin: Jīn Yílián; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of supercomputing in the country.

Boris Artashesovich Babayan (Russian: Борис Арташеcович Бабаян; Armenian: Բորիս Արտաշեսի Բաբայան; born Baku, 20 December 1933) is a Soviet and Russian computer scientist of Armenian descent, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the former Soviet Union and Russia.

In parallel computing, work stealing is a scheduling strategy for multithreaded computer programs.

intended to improve the safety in the usage of shared resources among multiple threads by means of mutual exclusion

Dekker's algorithm is the first known correct solution to the mutual exclusion problem in concurrent programming where processes only communicate via shared memory.

The Eisenberg & McGuire algorithm is an algorithm for solving the critical sections problem, a general version of the dining philosophers problem.

OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism.

four symmetric multiprocessing vector processors

the inaugural recipient of the IEEE/ACM-CS Ken Kennedy Award

the design and analysis of parallel processing algorithms

He is a co-author of the NAS Benchmarks, which are used to assess and analyze the performance of parallel scientific computers.

Split-C is a parallel extension of the C programming language.

Automatic vectorization, in parallel computing, is a special case of automatic parallelization

providing a high-level abstraction of a parallel program

His main areas of research are high performance computing, data science, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial methods in scientific computing, and string algorithms.

Parallel computing Performance measurement Operating systems High-level programming language, High-level languages

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 2024, and named as an ACM Fellow in 2025, "for contributions to parallel/distributed computing, resilience, and scientific data reduction" and IEEE Fellow, class of 2017 "for contributions to high-performance computing, fault tolerance, and grid-based computing".

He is also the founding Director of the Parallel Computing Institute.

She worked there from 1968 to 1995, helped design the curriculum in its early years, and developed a specialist interest in parallel programming.

He is known for his work on the organization of computer systems, on parallel processing and SARA (system architects apprentice).

He was one of the leading architects of the Soviet Elbrus supercomputers and the high-level programming language El-76.

Watanabe is the project manager of the RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center.

Ci Yungui (simplified Chinese: 慈云桂; traditional Chinese: 慈雲桂; pinyin: Cíyún guì, 1917-1990), male, born in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was a Chinese computer scientist widely honored as "the father of China's supercomputers".