Explicitly parallel instruction computing

EPIC is a means to increase processing speed by achieving parallelism of instruction execution without fundamentally rewriting programs in parallel form, without changing algorithms or languages, and often without even recompiling programs. Instruction-level parallel processing achieves high performance without major changes to software. Instruction-level parallelism was first achieved by HPL-PD formerly known as the PlayDoh architecture, which encompassed a large space of possible EPIC instruction set architectures.

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