parallelcomputingplatform

noun
UK /ˈpærəlɛl kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ ˈplætfɔːm/
US /ˈpærəlɛl kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ ˈplætfɔːrm/

A system where many computers or chips work together at the same time to solve big problems fast.

The scientists used a parallel computing platform to run their huge simulation in just a few hours.

SYNONYMS

multiprocessor systemconcurrent computing environmentdistributed computing platformhigh-performance computing system

RELATED WORDS

clusterGPUsupercomputerthreadnode

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A software framework that lets programs split work across many processors at once.

The developers built their app on a parallel computing platform to speed up image processing.

3. A cloud service that runs many tasks simultaneously on linked machines.

Her company rented a parallel computing platform to train its AI models.

4. Any hardware setup designed for simultaneous operations rather than one-at-a-time processing.

The lab's new parallel computing platform replaced ten older single-core servers.