This design enhances performance by noting that many applications calculate "vector-like" operations
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Such as c(i)=a(i)+b(i) for i=1...N and N quite large
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This allows one to address two performance problems
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Latency in accessing memory (e.g. could take 10-20 clock cycles between requesting a particular memory location and delivery of result to CPU)
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A complex operation , e.g. a floating point operation, can take a few machine cycles to complete
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They are typified by Cray 1, XMP, YMP, C-90, CDC-205, ETA-10 and Japaneses Supercomputers from NEC Fujitsu and Hitachi
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