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From: lisper-bjorn@YALE-BULLDOG.ARPA (Bjorn Lisper)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: parallel numerical algorithms
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Date: 27 May 88 11:57:50 GMT
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In article <1684@hubcap.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
writes:
>for comp.parallel:
>>Although I am mostly interested in true parallelism, I wouldn't mind
>>receiving algorithms based on vectorization, and such like.
>
>The English language is marvelously vague.  I wish I knew what 'true'
>parallelism is or was.
....
>If we are going to make a distinction between vector and parallel, it had
>better have better basis for making that distinction.

In my world it is very simple. parallelism is when you do several things at
once, at different places. Vector operations are usually executed in a
pipeline. When the pipeline is filled every stage in it will execute in
parallel. Thus vector operations provide a special form of parallelism.

Bjorn Lisper