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In the 1980s it was believed computer performance was best improved by creating faster and more e cient processors. This idea was challenged by parallel processing, which in essence means linking together two or more computers to jointly solve a computational problem. Since the early 1990s there has been an increasing trend to move away from expensive and specialized proprietary parallel supercomputers vector-supercomputers and massively parallel processors towards networks of com- puters PCs Workstations SMPs.