SIMD Programming Manual for Linux and Windows
By: by Paul Cockshott, Kenneth Renfrew
Contributors: Renfrew, Kenneth
Series: Springer Professional Computing; Springer professional computing
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781849969208; 9781447138624
Subjects: Computer vision; Computer science
Description: The book is intended as a programmer's introduction to the use of SIMD on PCs. It presents the underlying technology of SIMD processing on current PCs and looks at tools to exploit this including the Intel SIMD library and the Parallel Processing Language Vector Pascal. It explains how to cast algorithms in parallel to exploit the parallel processing capability of standard PCs obtaining large performance gains relative to conventional sequential compilers. It assumes a familiarity with imperative programming but not specifically with Pascal. It does not assume any prior familiarity with the SIMD programming model. The language translation system will be available either as a downloadable for Linux or Windows in association with the book. This book will be particularly useful for programmers in the rapidly growing area of games and multi-media entertainment, and it would also to academics interested in parallel programming techniques or array programming languages.
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Table of contents: title: Computer Speed, Program Speed; title: SIMD Instruction Sets; title: SIMD Programming in Assembler and C; title: Intel SIMD Instructions; title: 3DNow Instructions; title: Another Approach: Data Parallel Languages; title: Basics of Vector Pascal; title: Algorithmic Features of Vector Pascal; title: User Defined Types; title: Input and Output; title: Permutations and Polymorphism; title: Advanced Set Programming; title: Parallel Image Processing; title: Pattern Recognition and Image Compression; title: 3D Graphics; title: Introduction to VIPER; title: Appendix A: Compiler Porting Tools; title: Appendix B: Software Download; title: Appendix C: Using the Command Line Compiler.