Editing CPU-bound (section)

==As applied to jobs==
CPU-bound jobs will spend most of their [[walltime|execution time]] on actual computation ("number crunching"<ref name="Gill 2006 p. 83" />) as opposed to e.g. communicating with and waiting for peripherals such as [[network device|network]] or [[computer data storage|storage devices]] (which would make them [[I/O bound]] instead). Such jobs can often benefit from [[parallelization]] techniques such as [[multithreading (software)|multithreading]] if the underlying [[algorithm]] is amenable to it, allowing them to distribute their workload among multiple [[CPU core]]s and be limited by its multi-core rather than single-core performance.