data-parallel code
nounUK /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl kəʊd/
US /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl koʊd/
Code that does the same job on many pieces of data at the same time.
The game uses data-parallel code to move thousands of stars across the screen at once.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A programming style where the same instruction runs on different data elements simultaneously.
Data-parallel code lets each processor handle a different slice of the array.
3. Software written for hardware that processes many data points in one operation.
The scientist rewrote the simulation as data-parallel code to run on the GPU.
4. Code organized so that independent data chunks can be processed concurrently without conflicts.
Splitting the image into tiles made the data-parallel code easy to distribute.