Parallel programming

Parallel programming is a kind of computer programming for multiprocessor machines. Parallel programming or computing is the splitting of a single problem into a number of subtasks that can be computed relatively independently and then aggregated to form a single coherent solution.

Distributed computing can be defined as a method of information processing in which work is performed by separate computers linked through a communications network. Parallel Programming is most often used for tasks that can easily broken down into independent tasks such as purely mathematical problems e.g. factorisation. Problems such as these are known to be 'embarrassingly parallel'.

See Parallel processor Concurrent C