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  1. A computing device built from a large number
  2. of interconnected simple processors, which
  3. are able both to communicate with each other
  4. and process information separately. The
  5. underlying model is that of the human brain.
  6. These `massively parallel' computers, as they
  7. are sometimes known, are still at the
  8. development stage.
  9.