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Algorithms with this property are often expressed in terms of the relationships between T-sub-one, T-sub-p, and T-sub-infinity under the work-span or work-time frameworks. Gustafson’s law generalizes an earlier statement that this property provides improvements equal to “one over the quantity ‘one minus p plus p over s.’” Register renaming and a common data bus are among the innovations that Tomasulo’s algorithm uses to improve this property, whose gains are also described by Amdahl’s law. Flynn’s (-5[1])taxonomy uses categories such as MIMD to describe this property’s presence at the data and/or instruction levels. (-5[1])Unlike concurrency, this property involves multiple processes running simultaneously, such as in pipelining. For 10 points, name this property contrasted with sequential computing. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: parallelism [or parallel computing; or synonyms such as parallel programming; or parallelization; accept distributed computing or distributed systems; accept multithreading or multiprocessing; accept pipelining until read; reject “concurrency”]
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