Open-Source Compiler Support Starts Riding Down For Intel's Sapphire Rapids

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Open-Source Compiler Support Starts Riding Down For Intel's Sapphire Rapids

Intel's Sapphire Rapids is the Icelake successor not looking to be released until 2021 but thankfully the open-source compiler support is already seeing initial work on enabling the new instruction set extensions...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Sapphire-Rapids-ENQCMD

[skeevy420]

Terrific. I can start telling people "yeah, my software is so optimized you won't even have the capability to run it for 2 more years".

[starshipeleven]

Terrific. I can start telling people "yeah, my software is so optimized you won't even have the capability to run it for 2 more years".

Choo choo, all aboard the hype train.

[skeevy420]

Choo choo, all aboard the hype train.

Now I'm having flashbacks of my KSP days

[fazalmajid]

It seems the ENQCMD is meant to support I/O acceleration, e.g. offloading of CRC computation as is already done in NICs. For more details, see:

https://01.org/blogs/2019/introducing-intel-data-streaming-accelerator