1.   Computers and the Brain A conventional computer is typically a single processor acting on explicitly programmed instructions.

2.   The old system was located in a single central processor on one floor of a building in earthquake-prone San Francisco.

3.   Theoretical speed limits for a single processor are being approached.

4.   This might be a fixed length pipeline, or even a single sequential processor.

5.   Earlier generations of parallel computers have posed tremendous programming challenges for software designers accustomed to designing their applications for single processors.

6.   Its proponents pursued the idea of designing processors that were capable of executing many different instructions at once inside a single processor.

7.   Last year, a single processor version of the Tera machine set a world speed record for sorting integer numbers.

8.   The margin will rise in coming quarters because Intel is selling fewer motherboards, which carry lower margins that single processors.

9.   But the parallel system will distribute workload of a single processor to more processors in a computer.