Talk:Parallel processing (psychology)

Parallel Processing refers to the concept of speeding-up the execution of a program by dividing the program into multiple fragments that can execute simultaneously, each on its own processor. A program being executed across n processors might execute n times faster than it would using a single processor.

Ahmad Al-Bedwawi

colloquialism

Is it appropriate to use such a colloquial term as "divide and conquer"? --Russell Richie

Merger

Perhaps this could be combined with and automatically link to parallel computing? This page seem rather redundant considering the size of the parallel computing page. --beefpelican

Processing and computing are two aspects of the same idea: serial and parallel forms exist in both. Computing tends to be processor/computer oriented, but other forms exist besides digital processors: analog, optical, biological. Parallel processing as applied to biology indicates different hardware (organs, tissues, nerves) dividing up a task to improve the survival chances of the organism. The visual cortex is the historical version of this type of study. I favor making this a disambiguation page. C.S.Davidson

The computer based aspect should be, certainly. However, the brain-based portion should be in a separate article. You could either leave that here, or make Parallel processing a disambiguation page, and move the brain information to something like Parallel processing (brain). I favor the latter, as that helps reduce the chance that future editors adding computer based info into the brain article. -- 15:09, 28 August 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.33.121.200 (talk)

Machine Vision

I marked this article for cleanup because it seems to be more about machine vision than about parallel processing. Finn zee Fox 19:47, 24 April 2007 (UTC)