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Hi,
I work on code which targets AVX2 + FMA3 and depends on the accuracy of VRCPPS/VRSQRTPS. Should I expect the implementation of these instructions on Haswell to be the same as on Ivy Bridge?
Regards,
Marat
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I suppose he means do the instructions maintain the same numerical behavior, as I'd expect.
I didn't hear anything about one time proposed addition or substitution of corresponding instructions with sufficient accuracy to support double with 2 iterations, such as early AMD SSE CPUs had. Current Intel implementations of iterative divide and sqrt methods are specified to maintain 49-bit precision unless the options to accept less are set.
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Thanks, Tim. However, I'm concerned not only about accuracy, but also about convergence to correctly rounded result. Reciprocal computed with FMA converges to correctly rounded result, but requires that the initial approximation overestimates 1/x when x is a power of two. The RCPPS implementation in Ivy Bridge does not overestimate 1/x for these cases, and if we compute reciprocal with FMA and using Ivy Bridge RCPPS implementation, it will not produce correctly rounded result when x is power of two (e.g. rcp(0x1.FFFFFFFFFFFFFp-1) will converge to 0x1.0000000000000p+0 instead of 0x1.0000000000001p+0).
Thus I wonder if RCPPS/RSQRTPS on Haswell produce numerically different results than on Ivy Bridge.
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Interesting point. I haven't heard of any changes, but others here are more expert on that.
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The VRCPPS and VRSQRTPS instructions on the Haswell family microarchitecture are intended to return identical results and have the same behavior as found on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.
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Thank you, TimP and BRET T., this is what I was looking for.
Sergey Kostrov, I already have an Ivy Bridge system, and it has the issue I described above.
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Please help an outsider: what is the instruction VRCPPS? it does not appear in the Intel documentation : Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures, Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 2 (2A, 2B & 2C), Instruction Set Reference, A-Z, Jan. 2013 .
From the discussion above, it looks like an higher-precision version of RCPPS .
Could you name a reference for that (and probably othe) new instructions? I surely would like an high-precision of the RSQRTPS , too.
Thanks
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Hi amos,
glad to see someone from Israel:)
VRCPPS computes the reciprocal of 8 32bit floating values.It is AVX instruction type.
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Thanks, iliyapolak. I should have guessed, with the 'V' at the start.
I am an old hand with assembly language, but a new one with 64-bit. My MASM does not support AVX instructions. So, I will have to look somewhere else for AVX support (perhaps WASM)..
Would you happen to know if 'Visual C 2012 professional' supports AVX in the integrated debugger? That is, when using debug and stepping through the code, will the 'disassembly window' show the AVX instructions ? Otherwise, debugging is a big problem...
I have to convert a program from Matlab into C+ASM, for speed. AVX could be a great help, IF and ONLY IF I could find a full-size assembler and debugger. Would you suggest a development enviroment for native AVX ? native AVX, not C mnemonics.
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Hi amos,
you mentioned in your post that you are converting matlab program into presumably c/inline assembly version so I would like to ask you do you write scientific software?I have a few projects mainly large library of special functions which i try to optimize are you interested in it?
Thank you in advance
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Hi iliya,
Yes, I develope scientific software. Usually to perform algorithms in Machine Vision, Image Enhancement, On-Line quality control and other problems of noisy and clattered inputs. Real time working systems, not mathematical models.
About optimising your library - perhaps I could be of help. Pls contact in private message.
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