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21Raster Image Processor — device that converts vector images into bit mapped images that can be printed, RIP …
22Parallel computing — Programming paradigms Agent oriented Automata based Component based Flow based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing …
23SIMD — In computing, SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is a technique employed to achieve data level parallelism, as in a vector processor. First made popular in large scale supercomputers (contrary to MIMD parallelization), smaller scale SIMD… …
24Cell architecture — Cell architectureConstituent elements*PPE *SPE *EIB *XDR *FLEX I/OPatents It is well known that IBM holds one of the world s largest patent portfolios. The United States Patent and Trademark Office proclaimed in 2004, For the twelfth consecutive… …
25Central processing unit — CPU redirects here. For other uses, see CPU (disambiguation). An Intel 80486DX2 CPU from above An Intel 80486DX2 from below …
26Supercomputer — A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation (at the time of its introduction). The term Super Computing was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 [cite book |last=Eames …
27IBM POWER — POWER is a RISC instruction set architecture designed by IBM. The name is a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC . POWER is also the name of a series of microprocessors that implement the instruction set architecture (ISA).… …
28Superscalar — A superscalar CPU architecture implements a form of parallelism called Instruction level parallelism within a single processor. It thereby allows faster CPU throughput than would otherwise be possible at the same clock rate. A superscalar… …
29Multiprocessing — (see also Multiprocessor) Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor and/or the ability to allocate …
30NEC SX-6 — The SX 6 is a supercomputer built by NEC Corporation that debuted in 2001; the SX 6 was sold under license by Cray Inc. in the U.S. Each SX 6 single node system contains up to eight vector processors, which share up to 64 GB of computer memory.… …
