Chapter 15
Exploiting Parallelism
Abstract
This chapter covers the fundamentals of parallelism. While common techniques for parallelism, including multi-process and multi-threading, are briefly discussed, the majority of the chapter focuses on SIMD vectorization with SSE and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX).
Keywords
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
AVX512
SIMD
Vectorization
Alignment
Parallelism, the act of performing two or more operations simultaneously, is a topic that has generated lots of interest and headlines within the last decade. Part of this fascination ...
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