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31Instruction set — An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception… …
32FLOPS — Computer performance Name FLOPS yottaFLOPS 1024 zettaFLOPS 1021 exaFLOPS 1018 petaFLOPS 1015 teraFLOPS 1012 gigaFLOPS 109 megaFLOPS 106 kiloFLOPS …
33Message Passing Interface — MPI, the Message Passing Interface, is standardized and portable message passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers. The standard defines the syntax and… …
34Fujitsu VP2000 — The VP2000 were the second series of vector processor supercomputers from Fujitsu. They replaced their earlier Fujitsu VP series machines starting in 1990, and sold for a short period before being replaced by various massively parallel… …
35Microprocessor — Intel 4004, the first general purpose, commercial microprocessor A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer s central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit,[1] (IC) or at most a few integrated circuits …
36Simultaneous multithreading — Simultaneous multithreading, often abbreviated as SMT, is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple independent threads of execution to better utilize the resources… …
37Vectorization (computer science) — Vectorization, in computer science, is the process of converting a computer program from a scalar implementation, which does an operation on a pair of operands at a time, to a vectorized program where a single instruction can perform multiple… …
38Microcode — is a layer of hardware level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high speed memory and translates machine… …
39Instruction pipeline — Pipelining redirects here. For HTTP pipelining, see HTTP pipelining. Basic five stage pipeline in a RISC machine (IF = Instruction Fetch, ID = Instruction Decode, EX = Execute, MEM = Memory access, WB = Register write back). In the fourth clock… …
40Alliant Computer Systems — was a computer company that designed and manufactured parallel computing systems. Together with Pyramid Technology and Sequent Computer Systems, Alliant s machines pioneered the symmetric multiprocessing market. One of the more successful… …
