MIMDn.Computing multiple instruction, multiple data (designating a parallel computer architecture consisting of a number of powerful processors which can each execute streams of individual instructions on distinct streams of data).
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1972 Proc. AFIPS Conf.40 1214/1 External parallelism—MIMD.
1991 Sci. Amer. Jan. 81/2 A vector processor is a shared-memory MIMD machine because a programmer can divide up a problem among all processors.