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What is a multicore system?
CPU chips that have multiple cores inside a single physical chip
These multicore systems allow multitasking more easily as processing workload can be shared across the cores.
Most computers (and smartphones) now use multicore systems.
What is optimisation?
Individual pieces of software also need to be optimised to take full advantage of multicore systems.
eg. Google Chrome
What is a parallel CPU?
1. One that has lots of CPU cores (like a multicore CPU).
2. These cores all complete the same instructions on slightly different sets of data.
Parallel CPUs are made for processing large amounts of data very quickly.
eg. GPU