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The requirements of the application are such that the data cannot be partitioned: you have to book the seat on the flight the client wants, even if someone else is attempting to book a seat on the same flight. 33 34 The algorithms outlined above have attempted to avoid the need for concurrent activities to access shared data. We focused on parallel activities carrying out independent work. Even in these cases, their results may need to be merged into a shared data structure. Also, when one activity finishes its work it may be able to request more work from the manager or from one of the other parallel activities.
It is also argued that conventional von Neumann computers have a fundamental design flaw in their bottleneck for memory access. Instructions are fetched in sequence and their data operands are then read or written as specified in the instruction. It is difficult to speed up program execution by fetching instructions or data in advance so you have to rely on getting them quickly when you find out where they are. In the dataflow model, an instruction may execute as soon as its data operands are ready.
A library containing the interface specifications of the modules must be available so that intermodule operation invocations can be checked. Graphics applications, such as those involving raytracing techniques to achieve three-dimensional images, can be parallelized. The general area of artificial intelligence has a large number of problems which require a large amount of processing power, such as voice and image recognition, natural language processing and expert systems. It is often the case that a number of solutions to a problem must be evaluated and the most likely one selected.