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  Single Instruction/Multiple Data
       
          (SIMD) (Or "data parallel") The classification under Flynn's
          taxonomy for a parallel processor where many processing
          elements ({functional units) perform the same operations on
          different data.  There is often a central controller which
          broadcasts the instruction stream to all the processing
          elements.
       
          Contrast Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data.
       
          (1994-11-04)