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 of ...

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 unclear ...

Seymour Cray loved vector supercomputers, and made the second part of that term a household word because of it. NEC, the last of the pure vector supercomputer makers, is so excited about its new ...