Performance Analysis of Intel's MMX and SSE: A Case Study

  • Authors:
  • Alfred Strey;Martin Bange

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Euro-Par Conference Manchester on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The MMX and SSE extensions of current Intel Pentium processors offer a 4-way or 8-way SIMD parallelism to accelerate many vector or matrix applications. In this paper the performance of MMX and SSE for the implementation of neural networks is evaluated. It is shown that a speedup in the range from 1.3 to 9.8 for single neural operations and a total speedup of up to 4.1 for the simulation of a complete neural network can be achieved. A detailed performance counter analysis is provided.