Definition: Parallelism means that a programming task can be split into parts that can be run on several networked processors or computers.
Some algorithms lend themselves to this- for example image processing where the entire image has to be processed in small parts.
Glossary:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZAlso Known As: Parallel Processing
Examples:
The brain is an example of parallelism.
