Abstract
In 1994, the first multimedia extension, MAX-1, was introduced to general-purpose processors by HP. Almost ten years have passed, the present means of accessing the computing power of multimedia extensions are still limited to mostly assembly programming, intrinsic functions, and the use of system libraries. Because of the similarities between multimedia extensions and vector processors, it is believed that traditional vectorization can be used to compile for multimedia extensions. Can traditional vectorization effectively vectorize multimedia applications for multimedia extensions? If not, what additional techniques are needed? To answer these two questions, we conducted a code study on the Berkeley Multimedia Workload. Through this, we identified several new challenges arise in vectorizing for multimedia extensions and proposed some solutions to these challenges.
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR01-21401ITR. This work is not necessarily representative of the positions or policies of the Government.
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Ren, G., Wu, P., Padua, D. (2004). A Preliminary Study on the Vectorization of Multimedia Applications for Multimedia Extensions. In: Rauchwerger, L. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2958. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24644-2_27
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