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AMX supports a set of accelerators that can operate on tiles. Currently, just one accelerator is defined. | AMX supports a set of accelerators that can operate on tiles. Currently, just one accelerator is defined. | ||
==== Tile matrix multiply unit (TMUL) ==== | ==== Tile matrix multiply unit (TMUL) ==== | ||
| − | + | The '''Tile Matrix Multiply''' ('''TMUL''') Unit is an accelerator as part of AMX comprising a grid of fused multiply-add units capable of operating on tiles. The TMUL unit comes with a number of parameters supported including the maximum height (<code>tmul_maxk</code>) and maximum SIMD dimension (<code>tmul_maxn</code>). Those parameters are dynamically read by the TMUL unit upon execution. | |
== Microarchitecture support == | == Microarchitecture support == | ||
Revision as of 21:10, 27 June 2020
Instruction Set Architecture
- Instructions
- Addressing Modes
- Registers
- Model-Specific Register
- Assembly
- Interrupts
- Micro-Ops
- Timer
- Calling Convention
- Microarchitectures
- CPUID
Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX) is an x86 extension that introduces an accelerator framework for operating on matrices.
Contents
Overview
The Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX) is an x86 extension that introduces a new programming framework for working with matrices. AMX introduces two new components - a 2-dimensional register file with registers called 'tiles' and a set of accelerators that are able to operate on those tiles. The tiles represent a sub-array portion from a large 2-dimensional memory image. AMX instructions synchronous in the instructions stream and memory loads and stores by tiles are coherent with the host's memory accesses. AMX instructions may be freely interleaved with traditional x86 code and parallel with other extensions (e.g., AVX512) with special tile loads and stores and accelerator commands being sent over to the accelerator for execution.
Palettes
Determining the kind of operations available on specific hardware can be done by enumerating a palette of options.
Currently, 2 palettes exist:
- Palette 0 - initialized state
- Palette 1 - an 8-tile register file with each register being 16 rows x 64-byte (1 KiB) for a total register file of 8 KiB.
A programmer can configure the size of the register file by configuring tiles of smaller dimensions to suit their algorithm. Tiles may be configured in rows and bytes_per_row which are stored as metadata for the accelerator to operate on. Information pertaining to the palette is stored in a tile control register (TILECFG) and is accessible via the palette_table CPUID leaf 1DH. The TILECFG is programmed using the LDTILECFG instruction.
Accelerators
AMX supports a set of accelerators that can operate on tiles. Currently, just one accelerator is defined.
Tile matrix multiply unit (TMUL)
The Tile Matrix Multiply (TMUL) Unit is an accelerator as part of AMX comprising a grid of fused multiply-add units capable of operating on tiles. The TMUL unit comes with a number of parameters supported including the maximum height (tmul_maxk) and maximum SIMD dimension (tmul_maxn). Those parameters are dynamically read by the TMUL unit upon execution.
Microarchitecture support
| Instructions | Introduction |
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| AMX | Sapphire Rappids (server) |
Intrinsic functions
Bibliography
- Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions and Future Features Programming Reference, Revision 40. (Ref #319433-040)
