Although SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) parallel computers have existed for decades, it is only in the past few years that a new version of SIMD has evolved...
Compiler technology for multimedia extensions must effectively utilize not only the SIMD compute engines but also the various levels of the memory hierarchy: superword registers,...
Chun Chen, Jaewook Shin, Shiva Kintali, Jacqueline...
Short vector (SIMD) instructions are useful in signal processing, multimedia, and scientific applications. They offer higher performance, lower energy consumption, and better res...
Graphics and media processing is quickly emerging to become one of the key computing workloads. Programmable graphics processors give designers extra flexibility by running a sma...
Mauricio Breternitz Jr., Herbert H. J. Hum, Sanjee...
When vectorizing for SIMD architectures that are commonly employed by today’s multimedia extensions, one of the new challenges that arise is the handling of memory alignment. Pr...