Hello all,
I think that introducing OpenMP should be fairly straightforward, by tweaking the dispatching loops in functional.hpp functors (and wherever else loops exist) to use #pragma omp fors. (instead of while or simple for loops). I wish I had time to implement it (I may attempt to post a test though).
As far as SSE is concerned, there may be an easy way with auto-vectorization, but the hard part would be to get the compiler unwind uBlas expression template structure. In hand-made tests I have seen auto-vectorization and openMP working nicely on uBlas containers and giving performance better the Eigen3 (basically because Eigen3 is not using OpenMP efficiently atm). I may post those results in the near future along with some source code. Unfortunately the whole auto-vectorization feature is very compiler specific and I find the gcc is easier to get it running than MSVC or icpc. Another issue with auto-vectorization is the type alignment. For more info look at:
Furthermore I have seen some attempts in functional.hpp to probably enable SIMD auto-vectorization by providing compiler friendly syntax, (check the BOOST_UBLAS_USE_SIMD define), but I never tried to see how this works or if it actually boosts performance.
FInally I would agree with David than more permanent solutions would probably be Boost::SIMD.
Best,
Nasos
On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:14 AM, David Bellot wrote:
not for the moment.
In fact, there is a GSoC project for porting part of NT2 to Boost. It will be something like Boost::SIMD I think.
So I think that would be better to integrate this future library into ublas rather than having our own implementation.
The reason is that those guys at NT2 already have a rock-solid vector implementations running on multiple architectures (SSE, Altivec, Cell processor and I think ARM). So the benefit would be immediate for us.
However, I you plan to do something with OpenMP, that would be great. Eigen has it (or some sort of multi-core capabilities).
We need that too. I would start by looking at the GNU parallel STL implementation to have an idea.
Any suggestions ?
Cheers,
David
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