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Parallelization contract
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<p>The parallelization contract or PACT programming model is a generalization of the <a href="/facts/MapReduce/KbfxJ5vV">MapReduce</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_model/XhNua0XG">programming model</a> and uses <a href="/facts/Higher-order_function/VjnjGbpt">second order functions</a> to perform concurrent computations on large (<a href="/facts/Petabyte/BNHUp9Qq">Petabytes</a>) data sets in parallel. </p>