Further reading

• Vectorisation
  • Article in HPC wire: "Vectors: How the Old Became New Again in Supercomputing" on the re-emergence of vector instructions
• Vector instruction extensions for CPUs
  • AVX instruction set:
    • Intel AVX whitepaper
  • AVX512
    • Talk about the AVX512 history (by Tom Forsyth who works/worked at Intel) and corresponding slides
  • AVX512 has been revised in an improved specification AVX10 as all the extensions have turned it into a mess.
    • Intel AVX10 whitepaper
    • Article "AVX10/128 is a silly idea and should be completely removed from the specification" also contains nice information about the evolution of vector instruction sets in the x86 architecture.
  • YouTube recording of a talk on the history of vector instructions in x86
• Interconnects to link processor packages together, or dies in a package, preserving global memory:
  • UPI - Intel Ulta Path Interconnect on WikiPedia
  • CXL - Compute Express Link
  • UCIe - Unified Chiplet Interconnect Express
  • AMD Infinity Fabric
    • Very technical article on WikiChip
• YouTube playlist for this course (with many of the videos for other chapters of these notes)