Many scientists and designers say vector machines will increasingly be displaced by massively parallel systems.

The first, known as vector machines, use custom silicon processors; the NEC Earth Simulator is a vector design.

The cluster approach, using industry standard components, is less costly than custom-designed vector machines.

This technique, used for conventional vector machines, tries to find and exploit SIMD parallelism at the loop level.

K-means, Kohonen, two step, discriminant, support vector machine (SVM)

The largest Japanese computer makers have been slow to adapt to parallel technology and are still building vector machines that imitate those of Cray and Convex.

"There will still be a market for vector machines and Seymour is the master of what he does."

Most vector machines tended to be memory-limited, that is, they could process data faster than they could get it from memory.

Particularly, his work has focused on statistical analysis of learning algorithms, to its application to support vector machines, kernel methods and other algorithms.

This technique involves each vector operation being done for a size less than or equal to the maximum vector length on a given vector machine.