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Syrah is a set of C++ headers designed to insulate users from the specifics of particular vector ISAs and threading libraries. Syrah provides two fundamental abstractions: short (fixed-length) vectors and tasks. It is not a goal of Syrah to implement efficient "long-vector" or large data-parallel operations; however, these implementations can easily be built upon the building blocks provided here. Currently, Syrah supports the following vector ISAs: - SSE - AVX - NEON - LRBni This software is offered under a BSD licence. Please read LICENSE located in this directory for details. Organization of the source code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the header code lives in the src/include/syrah directory to make it easier to use the code via svn:externals and other means. All of Syrah is wrapped in the syrah namespace to avoid conflicts with other libraries. Similarly, all C-pre-processor macros are prefixed with Syrah (and appear in all caps). As a design choice, most operations are explicitly written out instead of relying on macro expansion to aid debugging and profiling (most debuggers and profilers have a difficult enough time with inlining, macros make it worse). The vector interface, including the default scalar implementation, is given in FixedVector.h. Applications need only include this file which then automatically includes one of the template specializations for a particular vector ISA (from the sse/, avx/, neon/ or lrb/ directories respectively). Currently, use of the vector ISAs is only for vectors of sizes that are multiples of the SIMD width of the ISA. For example, with SSE a FixedVector<float, 16> will use SSE intrinsics but FixedVector<float, 15> will not as 15 is not a multiple of 4. This will hopefully be addressed in the future, but is not a high priority. The external/ directory includes externally provided dependencies, including an AVX emulation header provided by Intel Corporation. In the future, similar header files will be contained here. In particular, the LRB prototype primitives header may be added at a future date if the license is changed to permit this. Until then the file can be found here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/prototype-primitives-guide/ The task and thread related code is currently scattered throughout the src/include/syrah directory. The most useful bits are probably the AtomicCounter, SpinLock (and SpinPool) and perhaps the simple Task system. Currently, only pthreads are supported (though it would be easy to use the same interface for Win32, Solaris or IRIX threads as well) and no attempt at a work-stealing scheduler is offered. A (usually) nanosecond resolution timer is included CycleTimer, while a number of macros are included in Preprocessor.h for things like stack alignment, forcing inlining and loop unrolling. A few simple tests are included in the unitTests/ directory. bringup.cc is an attempt at basic coverage of the vector operations of FixedVector and FixedVectorMask. The tasking system has been ignored for a while, so the taskBringup test is functional but not incredibly useful. A precision test comparing the math library against mpfr (if available) lives in math_precision.cc but isn't part of the cmake build system yet. The benchmarks/ directory contains both a simple saxpy test as well as a more comprehensive math library test (currently called trig). The math library test compares the performance of a scalar (system provided) implementation of each math function against the SYRAH provided version. This is currently the primary benchmark included with this distribution. Using the source code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For applications that simply want to use the vector interface, include FixedVector.h in your project and set the appropriate compiler flags depending on your vector ISA and compiler (e.g. -msse4.1 to enable SSE4.1 with gcc). The bringup.cc code in unitTests/ is a reasonable example usage. Similarly, the taskBringup.cc example in unitTests/ demonstrates use of all the tasking system features. To build the benchmarks and unit tests, make a build directory somewhere of your choosing and configure CMake. For example: cd /path/to/syrah mkdir build cd build ccmake ../src/ In your CMake build flags (preferably the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS so it applies to all build types), make sure to enable whatever vector ISA flag you need for your platform and compiler. Currently, you should also disable strict aliasing (e.g. via -fno-strict-aliasing with gcc) due to the way I support operator[] for vector types. As a warning, the bringup.cc test uses templates heavily and will take a while to compile with ancient versions of gcc. clang and recent versions of gcc handle templates much more gracefully and compile much more quickly.
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