The article is devoted to the design of high‑performance computing devices for parallel processing of information. The problem of  increasing the productivity of computing facilities by one or several orders of magnitude is considered on the example of the high‑ performance electronic computer M‑10, which was created in the 1970s at the NIIVK. If in a conventional computer, the method  of processing numbers is given by commands, then in M‑10, the methods for processing a function were specified by operators  taken from functional analysis. At the same time, the possibility of parallel processing of an entire information line appeared. Such  systems began to be called «functional operator type machines». The main ideas presented in the article may be of interest to  developers of specialized machines of the new generation, as well as engineers involved in the creation of high‑performance  computing devices using technologies of computing platforms.