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Foil 22 Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 The SIMD architecture consists
2 Many (typically simple) processors, with some local memory.
3 Executing the same instruction in lockstep, on a small piece of data in its local memory, with the instructions issued by the controller processor.
4 Such architectures are good for applying algorithms which require the same operation on a large array of elements, however, they suffer badly if the problem results in load imbalances as the processors synchronise after every step. This is not usually a problem for data parallel programs.
5 Examples - AMT DAP - Maspar

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