Thread A type of lightweight process. See the HPCinfo page on threads concepts for more information. The act of preparing a set of instructions to operate on a vector of numbers, particularly for execution on a vector processor . See the HPCinfo pages on vectorisation for more details. A powerful computer processor designed to perform arithmetic to long vectors rather than single numbers.
Vector processors make heavy use of pipelining .
See the HPCinfo pages on vectorisation and parallel-vector processors for more details.