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This paper addresses the implementation of a 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform on general-purpose microprocessors, focusing on both memory hierarchy and SIMD parallelization issues. Both topics are somewhat related, since SIMD extensions are only useful if the memory hierarchy is efficiently exploited. In this work, locality has been significantly improved by means of a novel approach called pipelined computation, which complements previous techniques based on loop tiling and non-linear layouts. As experimental platforms we have employed a Pentium-III (P-III) and a Pentium-4 (P-4) microprocessor. However, our SIMD-oriented tuning has been exclusively performed at source code level. Basically, we have reordered some loops and introduced some modifications that allow automatic vectorization. Taking into account the abstraction level at which the optimizations are carried out, the speedups obtained on the investigated platforms are quite satisfactory, even though further improvement can be obtained by dropping the level of abstraction (compiler intrinsics or assembly code).
This work has been supported by the Spanish research grants TIC 99-0474 and TIC 2002-750.
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Chaver, D., Tenllado, C., Piñuel, L., Prieto, M., Tirado, F. (2002). 2-D Wavelet Transform Enhancement on General- Purpose Microprocessors: Memory Hierarchy and SIMD Parallelism Exploitation. In: Sahni, S., Prasanna, V.K., Shukla, U. (eds) High Performance Computing — HiPC 2002. HiPC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36265-7_2
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