Chapter 1, Problem 34RETC

Explanation of Solution

Parallel computing:

• Parallel computing belongs to fourth generation computers.
• In the late 1980s, a new machine architecture called parallel architecture appeared.
• Parallel architecture depends on the set of interconnected central processing unit for a set of parallel machines.
• There are two classes of parallel machines.
  • The memory unit is shared in one class of parallel machines.
  • Each machine communicates internally through an internal network and the memory unit is not shared in another class of parallel machines...