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October 19, 2010
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GNU Parallel: Speed Up Processing With Multi-cores, Clusters
By Taylor Gillespie
Looking at the wall that is Moore's Law, computer processor manufacturers placed more than one processor core, each one essentially an independent operating unit, on each chip, but software must be rewritten to take advantage of being able to each core as an individual processor instead of the entire chip as one brute processor. Most software has not been rewritten to target each individual processor core.

GNU Parallel allows a system administrator to fully utilize the multiple cores that exist in computers today, as well as distribute the processing load to other networked machines. Exhibited as xargs-like program, GNU Parallel can be easily refactored into any existing setup.

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