Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language: X86 SIMD Development Using AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512

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D. KusswurmModern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Languagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7918-2_1

1. SIMD Fundamentals

Daniel Kusswurm¹  

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Geneva, IL, USA

 

Chapter 1 introduces x86 SIMD fundamentals and essential concepts. It begins with a section that defines SIMD. This section also introduces SIMD arithmetic using a concise source code example. The next section presents a brief historical overview of x86 SIMD instruction set extensions. The principal sections of Chapter 1 are next. These highlight x86 SIMD concepts and programming constructs including data types, arithmetic calculations, and data manipulation operations. These sections also ...