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PRAM: a standalone construct

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Distributed computing

an idealized parallel model of many processors sharing one memory in lockstep, used to classify problems by parallel time.

In distributed computing, PRAM refers to an idealized parallel model of many processors sharing one memory in lockstep, used to classify problems by parallel time. This meaning comes from Fortune (1978) in Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '78.[1]

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memory6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs model3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs parallel1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Fortune, S., & Wyllie, J. (1978). Parallelism in random access machines. Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '78. https://doi.org/10.1145/800133.804339

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