Re: New Principles of Operation (and Vector Facility for z/Architecture)

2015-03-10 Thread Abe Kornelis
Timothy, thanks for the pointer and the additional information. Apart from personal interest, my primary focus is in creating support for the new instructions in the z390 emulator for HLASM and runtime support. As such I am more interested in the technicalities than in the broad overview. If

Re: New Principles of Operation (and Vector Facility for z/Architecture)

2015-03-10 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes: > The IBM z13's ~139 SIMD instructions are different and new, yes. I expect > that they represent a perfect functional superset of the long ago > discontinued S/390 Vector Facility. However, it's probably not particularly > useful to draw many parallels

Re: New Principles of Operation (and Vector Facility for z/Architecture)

2015-03-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
>The vector new vector architecture looks interesting, but completely >different from the old vector architecture. The IBM z13's ~139 SIMD instructions are different and new, yes. I expect that they represent a perfect functional superset of the long ago discontinued S/390 Vector Facility. However

New Principles of Operation

2015-03-09 Thread Abe Kornelis
All, I just downloaded the new version of the Principles of Operation SA22-7832-10 from IBM. The vector new vector architecture looks interesting, but completely different from the old vector architecture. Regards, Abe Kornelis ==