Pipeline

Pipeline may refer to:

Electronics, computers and computing

• Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on
  • Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor
    • Classic RISC pipeline, a five-stage hardware based computer instruction set
  • Pipeline (software), a chain of data-processing processes or other software entities
    • Pipeline (Unix), a set of process chained by their standard streams
    • XML pipeline, a connection of XML transformations
    • CMS Pipelines, an improvement on UNIX piping. Allows multiple streams, moves pointers rather than data, is predictable.
  • Graphics pipeline, the method of rasterization-based rendering as supported by graphics hardware
• Pipelining (DSP implementation), a transformation for optimizing digital circuit
• Telestream pipeline, a video capture and playout hardware device

Physical infrastructure

• Pipeline transport, a conduit made from pipes connected end-to-end for long-distance fluid or gas transport
• Plastic pipework, for fluid handling
• Milking pipeline, used on a dairy farm to transport fluid milk

Business

• Art pipeline, process of creating and implementing art for a particular project, most commonly associated with the creative process for developing video games.
• Sales pipeline, a visualisation of the sales process of a company

Places

• Banzai Pipeline, a surfing spot on the North Shore of Oahu
  • Mister Pipeline, an Oahu surfer title
• Tolt Pipeline Trail, an equestrian and biking trail in Redmond, Washington, USA and Canada
• Keystone Pipeline, a partially operational and proposed pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a pipeline transporting crude oil across Alaska from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields

In arts and entertainment

Games

• Pipeline (game), a 1988 computer game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron
• Pipeline (board game), winner of Games Magazine's 1992 Game of the Year award

Literature

• Pipeline (comics), a character from Marvel Comics with the ability to teleport himself and others
• Pipeline, a 2017 play written by Dominique Morisseau

Music

• Pipeline (instrumental), a 1963 song by the Chantays
• Pipeline Music, a record label
• "Pipeline", a 1983 song by Depeche Mode from the album Construction Time Again
• "Pipeline", a 1984 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Ammonia Avenue
• BBC Radio Scotland, a programme of music on the bagpipes

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Pipeline (film), a 2021 South Korean heist film
• CNN Pipeline, a streaming video service by CNN

Roller coasters

• Pipeline roller coaster, a roller coaster model
• Pipeline: The Surf Coaster, a roller coaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, U.S.

Other uses

• The Pipeline, a former internet service provider
• School-to-prison pipeline, a pattern in the U.S., described by scholars and reform activists, of pushing disadvantaged students out of school and into the criminal justice system
• Drug pipeline, the drugs a pharmaceutical company has in development

See also

• Pipe (disambiguation)