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GDC 2009 Larrabee presentations availabe

Posted on 2.4.2009 by Anteru

The Larrabee presentations from the GDC are available now. Unlike the previous ones, these are finally technically interesting and describe how they implemented their recursive half-space based triangle rasterizer and how to port other algorithms to Larabee. Interesting read for … Continue reading →

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Intel Larrabee instruction set is ready-to-use

Posted on 25.3.2009 by Anteru (Updated on 17.4.2009)

Intel just released a C++ header which allows developers to use Larrabee instructions with current compilers, by simply writing out the future instrisincs as C code. Some interesting bits: 512 bit vector types (8x64bit double, 16x32bit float, or 16x32bit integer) … Continue reading →

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