[Beowulf] AVX

[Orion Poplawski]

On 06/30/2011 02:57 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> We are building a number of more ... specialty ... type cluster things these
> days. Its very possible to put together a pretty good 4 core 16GB ram
> modern/fast Xeon unit (with AVX bits ... Sandy Bridge based unit)

This sparked my curiosity as well.  What are people's experience with AVX? 
What software uses it?  Performance improvements?

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