The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
Single Instruction/Multiple Data SIMD 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)