Fig. 1
From: Fast noisy long read alignment with multi-level parallelism
Parallel technologies. a Traditional serial computing using scalar operations, processing one element at a time. b Vector-level parallel computing using SIMD instructions, processing 8 elements at a time. c Schematic diagram of a shared memory system, where multiple physical cores share physical memory. d Schematic diagram of a distributed memory system, where computing nodes are interconnected through a network