On the other hand, GPUs provide many parallel processing units which are ideal for throughput computing,” the paper said. However, hardware alone isn’t enough.

Don't just count the CPUs. You also have to factor in the graphics chips, and all the hard work they do.

Since then we have seen parallel processing techniques executed in many forms. In stacks of Macs. At Google. In "distributed computing" systems like the famous SETI@Home project. And now in chips ...

According to the startup, its PPU chips get around one of the primary limitations of existing CPUs, namely their inability to do parallel processing.

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing.