APPLICATIONS OF PARALLEL PROCESSING
Parallel computing is an development of sequential computing which tries to emulate what has always been the condition of affairs in natural world. In natural world, it is quite ordinary to find numerous complex, interrelated events taking place at the same time. Illustration of concurrent processing in natural and man-made environments includes:
- Daily operations within a business
- Automobile assembly line
- Ordering aloo tikki burger at drive through
- Building a shopping mall.
Therefore, parallel computing has been regarded to be 'the high end of computing' and has been provoked by numerical simulations of complex systems and 'Grand Challenge Problems' for example:
a) Collaborative work (virtual) environments
b) Evolution of MIS for national and multi-national corporations DNA structures of several species
c) Design of mechanical devices
d) Predicting results of chemical and nuclear reactions
e) Design of complex manufacturing processes
f) Accessing of large databases
g) Design of oil exploration systems
h) Design of electronic circuits
i) Design of web-based-business services and web-search engines
j) Design of computer-aided diagnosis in medicine
k) Development of advanced graphics and virtual reality software, individually for Entertainment industry, involving multi-media technologies and networked video.
l) Weather forecasting