"embarrassingly parallel" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more embarrassingly parallel [comparative], most embarrassingly parallel [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} embarrassingly parallel (comparative more embarrassingly parallel, superlative most embarrassingly parallel)
  1. (computing, programming, of a particular problem) Very easy to separate into a number of parallel tasks. Wikipedia link: embarrassingly parallel Categories (topical): Computing, Programming

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