[Beowulf] Re: OT: informatics software for linux clusters

Geoff Jacobs gdjacobs at gmail.com
Mon May 15 16:22:07 PDT 2006


Joe Landman wrote:
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> That is an issue with this code.  The Athlon has a 256k L2 last I
> remember, and a 128k L1.  Rather hard to keep lots of stuff in cache.
Barton cores had 512k L2 as well as a faster front side bus.

> Right now the big issue we are running into for another aspect of this
> project is the lack of a vector max/min function in SSE*.  (If anyone
> from AMD/Intel is listening, this is a *big* issue, and I even have a
> rough idea how to do it "quickly" in SSE at the expense of many SSE
> registers.
> 
> Joe
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