data-parallelloop

noun

UK /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl luːp/

US /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl luːp/

A way for a computer to do the same job on lots of data at the same time.

The program used a data-parallelloop to add up a million numbers quickly.

SYNONYMS

parallel loop data-parallel loop vectorized loop concurrent loop

RELATED WORDS

parallel computing multithreading SIMD loop unrolling GPU kernel

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A loop in which each iteration works on a different piece of data independently.

Engineers rewrote the for-loop as a data-parallelloop so each core handled its own chunk.

3. A programming construct that splits a large dataset across many processors.

The data-parallelloop spread the image pixels across all available threads.

4. A pattern in parallel programming where the same operation is applied to every element of a collection.

She replaced the sequential scan with a data-parallelloop to speed up the search.