Utilizing the other 80% of your system's performance: Starting with Vectorization
Vectorization, as opposed to parallelization, is less utilized as a means of exploiting the full capabilities of a processor. This is a problem since even today this means only ¼ to ½ of the performance of the CPU is used. This is only getting worse in future, especially as accelerators are becoming more prevalent.
After an introduction to the basics and history of vectorization the talk will introduce various techniques available for vectorization of compiled code. This talk will focus on gcc and for some details on Linux but the knowledge should be transferable if the features are fully implemented elsewhere.
Ulrich Drepper
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2742580.274...
