Chapter OneParallel Computing and Business Applications
If you own, manage, or work with a critical business application, you’re most likely dealing with performance problems. The application can’t handle the ever-increasing data volume, it can’t scale to meet new demand, or its performance is never good enough or fast enough. You need a higher level of performance; or even more daunting, you may need an order-of-magnitude increase so you can multiply the number of transactions your application can handle. In today’s computing environment, there’s really only one way to get there: Utilize a parallel architecture to run multiple tasks at the same time.
The fundamental concept of parallel architecture is this: Given a series of tasks ...
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