single instruction/multiple data

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Single Instruction/Multiple Data
SIMD
Single Instruction Multiple Data

   (SIMD) (Or "data parallel") The classification under {Flynn's
   taxonomy} for a {parallel processor} where many processing
   elements ({functional units}) perform the same operations on
   different data.  There is often a central controller which
   broadcasts the instruction stream to all the processing
   elements.

   Contrast {Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data}.

   (1994-11-04)