Native Signal Processing
Mr. Ravindra Bhargava
UT Austin
Monday, November 22nd, 5:00 PM, ENS 302
ravib@ece.utexas.edu
Abstract
Today's desktop computers run a wide variety of applications with
increasingly different characteristics. The average desktop computer is
expected to provide high performance for internet workloads, multimedia
programs, and advanced 3D games, in addition to the existing set of
business and high-end applications. To handle these expectations, many
general-purpose processors have added native signal processing (NSP)
instructions to their existing instruction set. These new instructions
attempt to exploit the inherent data parallelism found in modern
workloads. This talk provides an overview of today's NSP extensions
concentrating on MMX, but also including Sun's VIS, Intel's SSE, AMD's
3DNow!, and Motorola's Altivec.
Biography
Third year graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the University of Texas at Austin. A member of the
Laboratory for Computer Architecture directed by Dr. Lizy John. Primary
research interest is in high-performance computer architectue, including
compiler support, native signal processing, workload characterization and
system modeling.
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