parallelsoftwarepackage
nounUK /ˈpærəlɛl ˈsɒftwɛə ˈpækɪdʒ/
US /ˈpærəlɛl ˈsɔftwɛr ˈpækɪdʒ/
A group of computer programs made to work together at the same time on many jobs.
The scientists used a parallel software package to run their big simulation much faster.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A collection of programming tools designed to split tasks across several processors.
The parallel software package includes libraries for splitting the data across cores.
3. A bundled set of applications that run side by side without interfering with each other.
Our lab installed a parallel software package so each experiment runs in its own environment.
4. Software distributed as one unit that supports simultaneous execution of multiple processes.
The parallel software package ships with a scheduler that manages all the processes.