Concurrent Computing
Thread Programming
Throughput computing focuses on delivering high volumes of computation in the form of transactions. Initially related to the field of transaction processing [60], throughput computing has since been extended beyond that domain. Advances in hardware technologies led to the creation of multicore systems, which have made possible the delivery of high-throughput computations, even in a single computer system. In this case, throughput computing is realized by means of multiprocessing and multithreading. Multiprocessing is the execution of multiple programs in a single machine, whereas multithreading relates to the possibility of multiple instruction streams within the same program.
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