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The first use of SIMD instructions was in the ILLIAC IV, which was completed in 1966. SIMD was the basis for vector supercomputers of the early 1970s such as the CDC Star-100 and the Texas Instruments ASC , which could operate on a "vector" of data with a single instruction.
The x86 instruction set has several times been extended with SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) instruction set extensions.These extensions, starting from the MMX instruction set extension introduced with Pentium MMX in 1997, typically define sets of wide registers and instructions that subdivide these registers into fixed-size lanes and perform a computation for each lane in parallel.
The simplest way to understand SIMT is to imagine a multi-core system, where each core has its own register file, its own ALUs (both SIMD and Scalar) and its own data cache, but that unlike a standard multi-core system which has multiple independent instruction caches and decoders, as well as multiple independent Program Counter registers, the ...
Intel's first IA-32 SIMD effort was the MMX instruction set. MMX had two main problems: it re-used existing x87 floating-point registers making the CPUs unable to work on both floating-point and SIMD data at the same time, and it only worked on integers. SSE floating-point instructions operate on a new independent register set, the XMM ...
Instruction prefix to indicate end of hardware lock elision, used with memory atomic/store instructions only (for other instructions, the F3 prefix may have other meanings). When used with such instructions during hardware lock elision, will end the associated transaction instead of performing the store/atomic.
Baking soda is simpler than baking powder. It only contains one ingredient: sodium bicarbonate. The naturally alkaline compound works by interacting with acidic substances.
Cakes and biscuits are made with baking powder. By itself, baking soda has a bitter taste, which acidic ingredients help to neutralize. Because baking powder has both basic and acidic ingredients ...
AVX-512 vector instructions may indicate an opmask register to control which values are written to the destination, the instruction encoding supports 0–7 for this field, however, only opmask registers k1–k7 (of k0–k7) can be used as the mask corresponding to the value 1–7, whereas the value 0 is reserved for indicating no opmask ...