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mathematical technique > algorithm > parallel algorithm

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  • In computer science, a parallel algorithm, as opposed to a traditional serial algorithm, is an algorithm which can do multiple operations in a given time. It has been a tradition of computer science to describe serial algorithms in abstract machine models, often the one known as random-access machine. Similarly, many computer science researchers have used a so-called parallel random-access machine (PRAM) as a parallel abstract machine (shared-memory). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_algorithm)

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