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Seymour Cray was quoted as saying “If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1,024 chickens?” [WikCray]. This quote vividly illustrates the evolution of parallel processing from 1980–2020. Figure 2.1 breaks down the timeline into three overlapping waves of parallel systems.
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Kuhn, R., Padua, D. (2021). Parallel Hardware. In: Parallel Processing, 1980 to 2020. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01768-1_2
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