A blood pressure measuring apparatus based on multiprocessing and a method of operating the same are provided. The blood pressure measuring apparatus based on multiprocessing includes: at least two multichannel pulse wave measurers including a plurality of pulse wave measuring sensors configured to measure pulse waves； and at least two processors, each processor of the at least two processors being configured to receive corresponding pulse waves among the measured pulse waves from a corresponding multichannel pulse wave measurer of the at least two multichannel pulse wave measurers, and analyze the corresponding pulse waves and extract feature points from the analyzed pulse waves, wherein the at least two processors comprise a master processor configured to measure a blood pressure based on the feature points extracted by each of the at least two processors.
