What is Parallel Programming?

Question

What exactly is it? What functions/programming languages are more commonly used when parralel programming?

Answer 1

It is not a programming language rather it is a type of computation ( that is you have to build a computer to parallel program not the other way around (not by programming it so)
A super computer, a satelite. A mainframe, all these and more are built around the ideas of parallel programming, i.e.. Executing calculations, algorithms and processes in parallel, a similarity to this would be the idea of multitasking in a computer by use of many processors. I.e quad core. And so on.

Answer 2

Parallel programming (Parallel computing)
Is a form or type of programming whereby many calculations are done in parallel.. At the same time

Answer 3

Yes.
And It can do a lot of other things in parallel you don't really have to limit yourself. Example it can run a server, as well as being used by a group of hundreds of computers to do things they themselves literally cannot do. Because this computer can do things in parallel. E.g
Walk and talk at the same time
Breathe normally while dancing heavily
Swimming while rock climbing, they tend to use iy as a skeleton to build much larger things,
The backbone of cloud computing
Satelites
Super computers and so on

Answer 4

Ohh okay. That makes sense to me. When building a computer to parralel program, is that computer ONLY used for that specific purpose? (Like a server? ) Thanks, JENN !