Data-level parallelism

Definition
Data-level parallelism

"has to do with how data elements are distributed among computational units for similar types of processing."

Overview
"Data-level parallelism can be exploited through architectural and microarchitectural techniques that direct low-level instructions to operate on multiple pieces of data at the same time. This type of processing is often referred to as single-instruction-multiple-data. The third type is thread-level parallelism and has to do with the degree to which a program can be partitioned into multiple sequences of instructions with the intent of executing them concurrently and cooperatively on multiple processors. To exploit program parallelism, the compiler or run-time system must map it to appropriate parallel hardware."