Lab 8

Readings (Do Before Class)

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• Crunching Numbers with AVX

Slides (Look at During Class)

• Slides

In-Class Activity or Lab (Toward the end of Lecture)

• (lab day) Do a 'git pull'

Code

Listing	File	Notes
1	sequential.c	An example of adding two big arrays
2	parallel.c	An example of adding two big arrays with some parallelism
3	parallel_faster.c	Builds on parallel with a 'store' instruction to clean up our loop
4	parallel_fastest.c	Parallelize our initialization loop

Additional Resources

Please look over these curated links.

• (Video) Utilizing the other 80% of your system's performance: Starting with Vectorization

Acknowledgements

Thank you to my colleagues Professors Mike Shah, Laney Strange and Nate Derbinski for their assistance, templates and the code I used to create this page.