The Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) comprise a set of extensions to the Intel x86 architecture that is designed to greatly enhance the performance of advanced media and communication applications. In this section the SSE integer instructions that extend the MMX instruction set will be closely examined. They may be…

The MMX technology is designed to accelerate multimedia and communications applications by including new instructions and data types that allow applications to achieve a new level of performance. It exploits the parallelism inherent in many multimedia and communications algorithms, yet maintains full compatibility with existing operating systems and applications.  A…

Any computer, whether sequential or parallel, operates by executing instructions on data. A stream of instructions (the algorithm) tells the computer what to do at each step. A stream of data (the input to the algorithm) is affected by these instructions. A widely used classification of parallel systems, due to…