A new trend in supercomputer design for high-performance computing is using clusters of independent processors connected in parallel.
The technology involves scores of independent processors working as one computer.
Channel architecture avoids this problem by using a separate, independent, low-cost processor.
Previously, branch computers tended to act as traffic policemen for data flowing into mainframes rather than as independent processors.
The merger would combine two of the country's largest independent processors of those transactions for banks and retail merchants.
Simple: to stop Farmland and other independent processors from competing for milk.
Instead of a single controlling data processor, the system develops its own unique behavior from the interaction of dozens of independent processors.
A conventional computer would have no more than a few hundred to perhaps a thousand independent processors.
Worthington Steel is America's largest independent processor of flat-rolled steel.
The companies, two of the country's largest independent processors of credit card transactions, expect combined revenue of $4 billion this year.