AVX technology and performance challenges

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60 Minute BoF session
Scheduled: Thursday, September 14, 2017 from 6:30 – 7:30pm in Platinum A

One Line Summary

Discussion the challenges and plumbing required to support AVX in multiple Linux packages and distributions

Abstract

A few weeks ago a basic patch to set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features in dynamic linker was merged in glibc master for 2.26 release. This gives the capability to set optimized libraries at runtime. This BoF is for discuss the performance opportunities and how to adapt the Linux distributions to this new glibc feature

Tags

compilers, glibc, AVX

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Speaker

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    Victor Rodriguez

    Biography

    Victor was maintainer and developer of the board OMAP138 “Hawk board” on the Linux project. At Intel he is part of the Open Source Technology Center as OS developer. He is in charge of the Power and Performance team of the Clear Linux* Project for Intel® Architecture OS . He also has experience as SW validation and tools development engineer in HPC and binary translation teams. In his free time is volunteer with Intel Education and regularly gives technical presentations to universities and tech congress in order to increase the level of Linux/Embedded knowledge.