data between processors or processor sets this disclosure includes a method for load balancing between the two sets of processors application_number US 5863608 A description with the advent of general purpose multi core processors from intel or amd which have either 2 4 or 8 processors and massively multi processor systems such as nvidia 39 s g80 gpu which as of this writing contains up to 128 simd single instruction multiple data processors a relatively inexpensive commodity desktop pc can provide a massive amount of processing power what is needed and is described herein are methods for utilizing systems that include sequential and parallel processors so as to greatly enhance the speed and efficiency of decoding and decompression of block based video data the decompressed video frames can then be displayed on a computer or television screen or used in further video processing such as image enhancement scaling or encoding for re transmission our invention in various embodiments takes advantage of slices and other independent portions of the video to greatly increase the coding speed and efficiency in one presently preferred embodiment our methods can be used in a system of the general type illustrated in fig1 containing a sequential processor array u201c spa u201d 101 and a parallel processor array u201c ppa u201d 102 the spa contains one or more high performance general purpose.