What does VP stand for?

Vector Processor

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Information technology (IT) and computers
Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A scalar processor is the most common type of CPU and handles instructions one at a time while a vector processor, more commonly used for scientific work, handles multiple instructions simultaneously.

Japan : Japan May Put Brakes on Fastest-supercomputer Project

NEC has already begun development of its next vector supercomputer, focusing on that of a single-chip vector processor whose performance per CPU exceeds 100GFLOPS.

NEC to Launch New SX Series Model, SX-8R, World's Fastest Vector ...

He then covers pipeline design and vector processors, data parallel architectures, and multiprocessor systems.

Advanced Computer Architectures

A vector processor can perform a mathematical operation on several numbers simultaneously.

Intel, NEC to Develop Supercomputer Technologies of Tomorrow

A vector processor design can perform operations on multiple data elements simultaneously.

United States : Intel unveils supercomputer chip, NEC partnership

This is the world's fastest supercomputer configured with 640 nodes (64GFLOPS/node, 5,120 CPUs in total), each of which consists of eight vector processors (8GFLOPS/CPU), and achieves the peak performance of 40TFLOPS (40 trillion floating-point operations per second).

NEC DELIVERS SUPERCOMPUTER TO EARTH SIMULATOR CENTER

The MSP vector processor is really just four of the others stacked up on the other side of the SMP connection, working in parallel and tricking the machine's Unicos operating system into believing that it is a standard Cray vector processor.

SGI Ships SV1 Cray Follow-Ons >By Timothy Prickett Morgan

The T3G platform is powered by an embedded vector processor core and is capable of achieving data transfer rates of 150 Mbps downlink and 50 Mbps uplink, and supports multimode TD-LTE/TD-HSPA/EDGE as well as the LTE FDD versions of the standard.

T3G Completes World's First TD-LTE End-to-End Application ...