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Tips, tricks, news and little things we've learned about using the Vector Engine

NEC vector engine compilers support intrinsics!

Posted on January 19, 2024

NEC's proprietary ncc, nc++, nfort compilers for the SX-Aurora Tsubasa support vector intrinsics. In Japanese. [Read More]
Tags: VE vector engine compiler vectorization vector intrinsics builtins sxaurora

Llama2 with bfloat16 on the SX-Aurora Vector Engine

Posted on October 9, 2023

llama2.c on the sx-aurora VE ran on bfloat16 data, performance measurements and comparison. [Read More]
Tags: ve sxaurora vector LLM Llama AI artficial intelligence large language models performance

Llama2 on the SX-Aurora Vector Engine

Posted on August 23, 2023

Porting and tuning of llama2.c on the sx-aurora VE, performance measurements and comparison. [Read More]
Tags: ve sxaurora vector LLM Llama AI artficial intelligence large language models performance

NEC compilers need no license any more

Posted on May 20, 2023

NEC's proprietary ncc, nc++, nfort compilers for the SX-Aurora Tsubasa can now be used without the need for a license. [Read More]
Tags: VE vector engine compiler vectorization vector sxaurora

Proprietary LLVM-VEC VE vectorizer for LLVM

Posted on January 15, 2023

NEC's proprietary ncc vectorizer is now usable from within a specially patched LLVM version. [Read More]
Tags: VE vector engine LLVM compiler vectorization vector sxaurora

Porting and Optimizing Molecular Docking Simulations on SX-Aurora Vector Engine (WSSP2021)

Posted on June 1, 2021

Presentation on porting of AutoDock to the SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine. [Read More]
Tags: ve sxaurora vector autodock genetic algorithm molecular docking

Debugging (A)VEO Programs

Posted on January 12, 2021

The post describes simple ways to debug AVEO program kernels that run on the vector engine. [Read More]
Tags: VEO offloading debug debugging vector sxaurora

veperf memory bandwidth, power and energy monitoring

Posted on July 19, 2020

The veperf monitoring tool displays live performance metrics of running VE programs. It has been extended to also show memory bandwidths as well as power and energy metrics. [Read More]
Tags: monitoring tools performance vector sxaurora

Releasing LLVM-VE-RV 1.5.1

Posted on April 9, 2020

LLVM-VE-RV 1.5.1 is the new release of LLVM-VE for SX-Aurora featuring automatic loop vectorization and experimental OpenMP target offloading from VH to VE. [Read More]
Tags: veo vector sxaurora offloading llvm vectorization

AVEO - Another/Alternative/Awesome VE Offloading

Posted on March 18, 2020

AVEO is a reimplementation of the VEO API with a completely different approach that solves several issues of VEO, especially reducing the call latency. [Read More]
Tags: veo vector sxaurora offloading
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