They could be caused by any kind of object with a parallel linear design, he said.

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That type of design uses three parallel arms to control the print head, enabling a device that's not only "fun to watch, " according to the group, but that can also quickly print high resolution objects with a large 9-inch by 11-inch build envelope.

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Parallel computing has been the holy grail of supercomputer design almost since the dawn of the silicon age.

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Also know that by design, scripts block a Web browser from doing parallel downloads, so browsers have to wait until a script is downloaded from Google before moving on to any others.

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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.

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