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English word

parallel

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UK /ˈpærəlel/US /ˈpærəlel/
adjective

two or more lines that are parallel to each other are the same distance apart at every point

noun

a person, a situation, an event, etc. that is very similar to another, especially one in a different place or time

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Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech
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By offloading time-consuming algorithms to a GPU that specializes in parallel processing, we routinely achieve 10-, 100-, sometimes 1,000-fold speedups, saving money, cost, and energy.

Jensen Huang's Speech at Caltech

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Um, I think one thing that's important is to try not to serialize dependencies—so if you can put as many elements in parallel as possible.

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And, you know, the whole multiverse—there's another, you know, parallel universe where I'm pursuing something completely different.

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