data-parallel computing
nounA way of doing the same job on lots of pieces of information at the same time.
The weather team used data-parallel computing to check millions of temperature readings quickly.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A programming model where the same operation is applied to every element of a large dataset across many processors.
The library supports data-parallel computing so each core handles a slice of the array.
3. A hardware approach in which many processing units work on separate chunks of data under one instruction stream.
Graphics cards are built for data-parallel computing, running thousands of threads at once.
4. A technique in big-data systems for splitting a dataset into partitions that are processed simultaneously.
The cluster relies on data-parallel computing to train the model on billions of records.