parallelize
verbEtymology From parallel + -ize.
1
To make parallel (to each other).
- Care must be taken lest the machine parallelize the fibers.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To make to execute in parallel.
- The programmers had to learn how to parallelize their algorithms.
- We present a general method to parallelize branch & bound algorithms on transputer networks and an application of this method to solve symmetric traveling salesman problems by a best first branch & bound strategy.1992, Wouter Joosen, Elie Milgrom, Parallel Computing: From Theory to Sound Practice, Barcelona, Spain, page 598:
3
To treat as if parallel; to draw parallels between.
- They erroneously parallelized the symptoms of the two diseases.
- Derived terms
- nonparallelized, parallelizability, parallelizable, parallelizer