Article 3FDCW Vectorization Now More Important Than Ever

Vectorization Now More Important Than Ever

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Richard Friedman
from High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC on (#3FDCW)
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Vectorization, the hardware optimization technique synonymous with early vector supercomputers like the Cray-1 (1975), has reappeared with even greater importance than before. Today, 40+ years later, the AVX-512 vector instructions in the most recent many-core Intel Xeon and Intel(R) Xeon PhiTM processors can increase application performance by 16x for single-precision codes.

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