data-parallel processor
nounUK /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl ˈprəʊsɛsə/
US /ˈdeɪtə ˈpærəlɛl ˈprɑːsɛsər/
A computer chip that does the same job on lots of pieces of information at the same time.
The data-parallel processor handled thousands of pixels at once to render the image quickly.
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2. A processor design in which one instruction operates on many data elements simultaneously.
Engineers used a data-parallel processor to speed up the matrix multiplication.
3. A hardware unit optimized for workloads where the same operation applies across large datasets.
Machine-learning training often relies on a data-parallel processor for efficiency.
4. A computing component that splits data across multiple execution lanes to increase throughput.
The data-parallel processor divided the array among its lanes and finished the loop fast.