throughputcomputing
nounThroughput computing is when a computer finishes lots of jobs in a certain amount of time.
The weather center uses throughput computing to process thousands of forecast models every night.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A style of system design that maximizes the number of completed tasks per unit time rather than the speed of any single task.
Engineers tuned the server farm for throughput computing so nightly reports finished before sunrise.
3. The measured rate at which a computing system completes jobs, often expressed in tasks per second.
After the upgrade, the lab's throughput computing doubled to 40,000 jobs per hour.
4. An approach in high-performance computing focused on processing large streams of independent jobs efficiently.
The university's grid is dedicated to throughput computing for genomics and physics simulations.