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Computer architecture

a bridging model of parallel computation in which processors compute locally in supersteps separated by communication and barrier synchronization.

In computer architecture, bulk synchronous parallel refers to a bridging model of parallel computation in which processors compute locally in supersteps separated by communication and barrier synchronization. This meaning comes from Valiant (1990) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Valiant, L. G. (1990). A bridging model for parallel computation. Communications of the ACM, 33(8), 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1145/79173.79181

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