英国于7月上旬宣布,参加英国政府并行计算机应用计划的计算机科学家将着手处理并行计算机用软件编写方法这一非常复杂的问题。并行计算机依靠许多处理机同时工作,因而比只有一个处理机的普通计算机快得多。英国贸易工业部公布的为期4年、耗资3400万英镑的计划将用以在爱丁堡、伦敦、牛津和南安普敦等四所大学创建4个新并行计算 In early July, the United Kingdom announced that computer scientists participating in the UK government’s parallel computer application program will start working on the very complex issue of parallel computer software writing methods. Parallel computers rely on many processors to work concurrently and are therefore much faster than regular computers that have only one processor. A four-year, £ 34 million plan announced by the UK Department of Trade and Industry will be used to create four new parallel computations at four universities in Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Southampton