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Single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) is an "execution model" and abstraction on top of the hardware paradigm, single Instruction, multiple data, introduced by Nvidia[1]:

[The G80 Nvidia GPU architecture] introduced the single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution model where multiple independent threads execute concurrently using a single instruction.

References

  1. ^ "Nvidia Fermi Compute Arcitecture Whitepaper" (PDF). http://www.nvidia.com/. NVIDIA Corporation. 2009. Retrieved 2014/07/17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |website= (help)