As I increased the task size, the overhead associated with communication between machines diminished in comparison to the overhead of executing the entire task on a single machine.

随着任务量的增加，机器间通信的开销与在单个机器上执行全部任务的开销相比逐渐变得微不足道。

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The ATM allows banks to reduce an entire bank branch into the size of a machine.

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