When there is talked about modern CPUs and GPUs the terms SIMD processor, Stream processor and Vector processor often pops up. I have been trying to figure out how these terms relate but its ...

A CPU that performs computations on one number or one element of data at a time. The primary CPU in all general-purpose devices (desktop, laptop, smartphone, etc.) are scalar processors. This type ...

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“Even today, you see heavily vectorized applications where 1 percent is scalar, but if you don’t have a scalar processor for that 1 percent, it might take 10 times as long to run the application.

Scalar means a single value, as opposed to a vector.A vector processor takes a vector of values, say 10 14 666 22 84 53 45 25 14 47 91 and with 1 instruction performs the same operation on all of ...