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Yes, SIMD is a form of parallel computing. But that is not the only form. A shader is one, and the difference is lots of instructions and lots of data. It is just the same instructions executing in all the instances.

Concurrent would be many tasks running at the same time with each task containing different jnstructions on either the same data, or different data.





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