Programmer's Guide for Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions

Single instruction multiple data (SIMD) architecture allows programmers to use a single set of instructions to translate data coming from a variety of sources - such as image and speech recognition applications - into a form that a computer's CPU can understand and process. Without SIMD architecture, multimedia applications run sequentially, leading to serious bottlenecks in the data stream. SIMD will benefit many applications on the Internet including: 3D geometry, animation, imaging, speech, video, and audio. Written by a processor architect at Intel's Microprocessor Research Labs, this book supplies all the background information, hands-on guidance, and source code needed to program with Internet SSEs, a new group of SIMD extensions that optimise the processing speed of streaming Internet 3D graphics, video, and other multimedia applications. The CD-ROM contains training materials, Intel SDK, Vtune 3.0 (an Intel performance tool), and the source code from the book.