How do you pronounce embarrassingly parallel?

The recorded pronunciation is /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/.

embarrassingly parallel

/əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English

Syllables: em-bar-rass-ing-ly pa-ra-llel
IPA: /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/

Scrabble Score

Letters

Syllables

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very easy to separate into a number of parallel tasks.

Example Sentences

"We call such applications "embarrassingly parallel" to emphasize the fact that, while there is a high degree of parallelism and it is possible to make efficient use of many processors, the granularity is large enough that no cooperation between the processors is required within the matrix computations."
"In the product algorithm, in fact, only one arithmetic operation, a multiplication, is required, so with a sufficient number of processors it executes in constant time regardless of the degree of the result. […] This is the "embarrassingly parallel" aspect of the algorithms: doing this part in parallel is so trivial it's hardly worth mentioning."
"Both of the example applications we've looked at here would be considered embarrassingly parallel. […] By contrast, most parallel sorting algorithms require a great deal of interaction. For instance, consider merge sort, a common method of sorting numbers. It breaks the vector to be sorted into two (or more) independent parts, say the left half and right half, which are then sorted in parallel by two processes. So far, this is embarrassingly parallel, at least after the vector is divided in half. But then the two sorted halves must be merged to produce the sorted version of the original vector, and that process is not embarrassingly parallel."
"We develop a parallel variational inference (VI) procedure for use in data-distributed settings, where each machine only has access to a subset of data and runs VI independently, without communicating with other machines. […] [W]e make use of the recently proposed nonparametric VI to facilitate an embarrassingly parallel VI procedure that can be applied to a wider scope of models, including to nonconjugate models. We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models."

Etymology

From embarrassingly (in the sense of being embarrassingly or extremely easy) + parallel.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/
British English: /ɪmˌbæɹəsɪŋli ˈpæɹəlɛl/

Inflected Forms

more embarrassingly parallel (comparative) most embarrassingly parallel (superlative)

Phrases

in parallel massively parallel

Frequently Paired Words

in parallel massively parallel parallelizable parallelization

Synonyms

delightfully parallel embarrassingly parallelizable perfectly parallel pleasingly parallel