Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to instructions for fast element unpacking. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction whose format includes fields to specify an opcode and locations of an Array-of-Structures (AOS) source matrix and one or more Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, wherein: the specified opcode calls for unpacking elements of the specified AOS source matrix into the specified Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, the AOS source matrix is to contain N structures each containing K elements of different types, with same-typed elements in consecutive structures separated by a stride, the SOA destination matrices together contain K segregated groups, each containing N same-typed elements, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, to unpack each element of the specified AOS matrix into one of the K element types of the one or more SOA matrices.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into a row-interleaved format. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of source and destination matrices, wherein the opcode indicates that the processor is to transform the specified source matrix into the specified destination matrix having the row-interleaved format; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by transforming the specified source matrix into the specified RowInt-formatted destination matrix by interleaving J elements of each J-element sub-column of the specified source matrix in either row-major or column-major order into a K-wide submatrix of the specified destination matrix, the K-wide submatrix having K columns and enough rows to hold the J elements.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing controllable sine and/or cosine operations in a processor are described. For example, execution circuitry executes a decoded instruction to compute at least a real output value and an imaginary output value based on at least a cosine calculation and a sine calculation, the cosine and sine calculations each based on an index value from a packed data source operand, add the index value with an index increment value from the packed data source operand to create an updated index value, and store the real output value, the imaginary output value, and the updated index value to a packed data destination operand.

Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to zero a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a matrix pair zeroing instruction having fields for an opcode and an identifier to identify a destination matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded matrix pair zeroing instruction to zero every element of a left matrix and a right matrix of the identified destination matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions specifying ternary tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction specifying a ternary tile operation, and locations of destination and first, second, and third source matrices, each of the matrices having M rows by N columns; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by, for each equal-sized group of K elements of the specified first, second, and third source matrices, generate K results by performing the ternary tile operation in parallel on K corresponding elements of the specified first, second, and third source matrices, and store each of the K results to a corresponding element of the specified destination matrix, wherein corresponding elements of the specified source and destination matrices occupy a same relative position within their associated matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transpose rectangular tiles. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first destination, second destination, first source, and second source matrices, the specified opcode to cause the processor to process each of the specified source and destination matrices as a rectangular matrix, decode circuitry to decode the fetched rectangular matrix transpose instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded rectangular matrix transpose instruction by transposing each row of elements of the specified first source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified first destination matrix and transposing each row of elements of the specified second source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified second destination matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into a row-interleaved format. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of source and destination matrices, wherein the opcode indicates that the processor is to transform the specified source matrix into the specified destination matrix having the row-interleaved format; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by transforming the specified source matrix into the specified RowInt-formatted destination matrix by interleaving J elements of each J-element sub-column of the specified source matrix in either row-major or column-major order into a K-wide submatrix of the specified destination matrix, the K-wide submatrix having K columns and enough rows to hold the J elements.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for efficient matrix alignment in a systolic array.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to instructions for fast element unpacking. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction whose format includes fields to specify an opcode and locations of an Array-of-Structures (AOS) source matrix and one or more Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, wherein: the specified opcode calls for unpacking elements of the specified AOS source matrix into the specified Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, the AOS source matrix is to contain N structures each containing K elements of different types, with same-typed elements in consecutive structures separated by a stride, the SOA destination matrices together contain K segregated groups, each containing N same-typed elements, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, to unpack each element of the specified AOS matrix into one of the K element types of the one or more SOA matrices.

Abstract: Graphics processing systems and methods are described. A graphics processing apparatus may comprise one or more graphics processing engines, a memory, a memory management unit (MMU) including a GPU second level page table and GPU dirty bit tracking, and a provisioning agent to receive a request from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to provision a subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, the subcluster including a plurality of graphics processing engines from a plurality of graphics processing apparatuses connected using a scale-up fabric, provision the scale-up fabric to route data within the subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, and provision a plurality of resources on the graphics processing apparatus for the subcluster based on the request from the VMM.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transpose rectangular tiles. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first destination, second destination, first source, and second source matrices, the specified opcode to cause the processor to process each of the specified source and destination matrices as a rectangular matrix, decode circuitry to decode the fetched rectangular matrix transpose instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded rectangular matrix transpose instruction by transposing each row of elements of the specified first source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified first destination matrix and transposing each row of elements of the specified second source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified second destination matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for implementing chained tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch one or more instructions until a plurality of instructions has been fetched, each instruction to specify source and destination tile operands, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instructions, to: identify first and second decoded instructions belonging to a chain of instructions, dynamically select and configure a SIMD path comprising first and second processing engines (PE) to execute the first and second decoded instructions, and set aside the specified destination of the first decoded instruction, and instead route a result of the first decoded instruction from the first PE to be used by the second PE to perform the second decoded instruction.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing array of structures (AoS) and structure of arrays (SoA) data. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a destination tile register to store data elements in a structure of arrays (SoA) format; a first source tile register to store indices associated with the data elements; instruction fetch circuitry to fetch an array of structures (AoS) gather instruction comprising operands identifying the first source tile register and the destination tile register; a decoder to decode the AoS gather instruction; and execution circuitry to determine a plurality of system memory addresses based on the indices from the first source tile register, to read data elements from the system memory addresses in an AoS format, and to load the data elements to the destination tile register in an SoA format.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to matrix compress/decompress instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a compress instruction having a format with fields to specify an opcode and locations of decompressed source and compressed destination matrices, decode circuitry to decode the fetched compress instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded compress instruction, to: generate a compressed result according to a compress algorithm by compressing the specified decompressed source matrix by either packing non-zero-valued elements together and storing the matrix position of each non-zero-valued element in a header, or using fewer bits to represent one or more elements and using the header to identify matrix elements being represented by fewer bits; and store the compressed result to the specified compressed destination matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to matrix compress/decompress instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a compress instruction having a format with fields to specify an opcode and locations of decompressed source and compressed destination matrices, decode circuitry to decode the fetched compress instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded compress instruction, to: generate a compressed result according to a compress algorithm by compressing the specified decompressed source matrix by either packing non-zero-valued elements together and storing the matrix position of each non-zero-valued element in a header, or using fewer bits to represent one or more elements and using the header to identify matrix elements being represented by fewer bits; and store the compressed result to the specified compressed destination matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing duplicate detection instructions on two-dimensional (2D) data. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a source matrix comprising M×N elements and a destination, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to use a plurality of comparators to discover duplicates in the source matrix, and store indications of locations of discovered duplicates in the destination. The execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction as per the opcode.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for implementing chained tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch one or more instructions until a plurality of instructions has been fetched, each instruction to specify source and destination tile operands, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instructions, to: identify first and second decoded instructions belonging to a chain of instructions, dynamically select and configure a SIMD path comprising first and second processing engines (PE) to execute the first and second decoded instructions, and set aside the specified destination of the first decoded instruction, and instead route a result of the first decoded instruction from the first PE to be used by the second PE to perform the second decoded instruction.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for tile-based gather and scatter operations. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a destination tile register to store a 2-D arrangement of data elements; a first source tile register to store indices associated with the data elements; instruction fetch circuitry to fetch a tile gather instruction comprising operands identifying the first source tile register and the destination tile register; a decoder to decode the tile gather instruction; and execution circuitry to determine a plurality of system memory addresses based on the indices from the first source tile register and to load the data elements from the system memory addresses to the destination tile register.