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Data CentersImplementing BLAKE With AVX, AVX2, and XOP
In 2013 Intel will release the AVX2 instructions, which introduce 256-bit Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) integer arithmetic. This will enable desktop and server processors from this vendor to support 4-way SIMD computation of 64-bit add-rotate-xor algorithms, as well as 8-way 32-bit SIMD computations. AVX2 also includes interesting instructions for cryptographic functions, like any-to-any permute and vectorized ...