• In computing, a vector processor is a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set where its instructions are designed to operate efficiently...
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  • A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor. Registers usually consist of a small amount of fast storage...
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  • processor is classified as a single instruction, single data (SISD) processor in Flynn's taxonomy. The Intel 486 is an example of a scalar processor....
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    processor (or multiple-issue processor) is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor...
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  • 'without' the vector processor. The vector processor was referred to as the V-box, and it was Digital's first ECL implementation of the VAX Vector Architecture...
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    Single instruction, multiple data (category Digital signal processing)
    the use of SIMD-capable instructions. A later processor that used vector processing is the Cell processor used in the Playstation 3, which was developed...
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  • Vector packet processing — The Vector Packet Processor 20.01 documentation". fd.io. Retrieved 2020-08-12. "[Guide] Intro to Vector Packet Processing (VPP)"...
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    use a general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) as a modified form of stream processor (or a vector processor), running compute kernels. This...
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  • Knights Landing co-processor, which shipped in 2016. In conventional processors, AVX-512 was introduced with Skylake server and HEDT processors in 2017. AVX...
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  • the Cell processor can be split into four components: external input and output structures, the main processor called the Power Processing Element (PPE)...
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  • Coherent Logix hx3100 Processor, a 100-core DSP/GPP processor based on HyperX Architecture Movidius Myriad 2, a manycore vision processing unit (VPU) Kalray...
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    is the processor frequency (cycles per second). Increases in frequency increase the amount of power used in a processor. Increasing processor power consumption...
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    A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its...
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  • and explicit timing delays to synchronize data flow from processor to processor. Each processor in a systolic system executes an invariant sequence of instructions...
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    units are: a CPU core, two Vector Processing Units (VPU), a 10-channel DMA unit, a memory controller, and an Image Processing Unit (IPU). There are three...
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  • integer registers, and 8 32-bit address registers. The new vector processor increased vector processing speed by reducing the in-register cycle time to 42 ns...
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    NEC SX-6 (category Vector supercomputers)
    eight vector processors, which share up to 64 GB of computer memory. The SX-6 processor is a single chip implementation containing a vector processor unit...
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    FR-V (microprocessor) (category Digital signal processors)
    vector processor core. A 32-bit RISC instruction set in the superscalar core is combined with most variants integrating a dual 16-bit media processor...
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    CDC STAR-100 (category Vector supercomputers)
    Data Corporation (CDC). It was one of the first machines to use a vector processor to improve performance on appropriate scientific applications. It was...
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  • typically used addresses by different microprocessors: The reset vector for the Intel 8086 processor is at physical address FFFF0h (16 bytes below 1 MB). The...
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  • (image processing) DirectCompute CUDA OpenMP OpenCL SPIR-V SYCL Metal (API) GPGPU Vector processor RISC-V § Vector extension Digital signal processor Field-programmable...
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  • TI Advanced Scientific Computer (category Vector supercomputers)
    Instruments (TI) between 1966 and 1973. The ASC's central processing unit (CPU) supported vector processing, a performance-enhancing technique which was key to...
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  • high-performance workstation type machines, while Ardent developed a custom vector processor that allowed it to compete with large supercomputers for graphics-related...
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  • Predication (computer architecture) (category Instruction processing)
    applying one bit of a conditional mask vector to the corresponding elements in the vector registers being processed, whereas scalar predication in scalar...
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  • "matrices". In some cases the term "vector" is used in computing to refer to an array, although tuples rather than vectors are the more mathematically correct...
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    semiconductor memory in this series. The central processor has no I/O instructions, relying upon the peripheral processor (PP) units to do I/O. A Cyber 170-series...
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  • arrays can be called a vectorized operation, regardless of whether it is executed on a vector processor, which implements vector instructions. Array programming...
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  • RISC-V (section Vector set)
    general-purpose mixed-precision vector processor, suitable to execute compute kernels. Code would port easily to CPUs with differing vector lengths, ideally without...
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  • chaining is a technique used in computer architecture in which scalar and vector registers generate interim results which can be used immediately, without...
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  • minicomputer (see also Pluribus); later designs included an optional vector processor using AMD Am2900 bipolar bit-slices to speed tomographic reconstruction...
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