Can I combine these two sentences into one?
1. The task of this assignment is to run a parallel program on the Spartan cluster.
2. The parallel program analyzes a Twitter data set, counting the number of times a given term appears and listing the top 10 mentions and topics.
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The task of this assignment is to run a parallel program on the Spartan cluster, which analyzes a Twitter data set, counting the number of times a given term appears and listing the top 10 mentions and topics.

Question

Can I combine these two sentences into one?
1. The task of this assignment is to run a parallel program on the Spartan cluster.
2. The parallel program analyzes a Twitter data set, counting the number of times a given term appears and listing the top 10 mentions and topics.
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The task of this assignment is to run a parallel program on the Spartan cluster, which analyzes a Twitter data set, counting the number of times a given term appears and listing the top 10 mentions and topics.

Answer

It's sort-of OK.  There is potentially some ambiguity about what is doing the analysing (the cluster or the program) but the meaning is reasonably clear from the context.
I think would probably be better as: The task of this assignment is to run a parallel program on the Spartan cluster,  to analyze a Twitter data set, count the number of times a given term appears and list the top 10 mentions and topics.

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