MULTIPROCESSING(third)
In welded wire mesh an MIMD architecture, several instruction cycles may be active at any given time, each independently fetching instructions and operands into multiple processing units and operating on them in a concurrent fashion. This category includes multiple processor systems in which each processor has its own program control, rather than sharing a single control unit.
MIMD razor tape wire systems can be further classified into throughput-oriented systems, high availability systems, and respopse-oriented systems. The goal of throughput-oriented multiprocessing is to obtain high throughput at minimal computing cost in a general-purpose computing environment by maximizing the number of independent computing jobs done in parallel. The techniques employed by multiprocessor operating systems to achieve this goal take advantage of an inherent processing versus input/output balance in the workload to produce balanced, uniform loading of system resources with scheduled response.