asst1 | Stanford CS149 -- Assignment 1

You will need to run code on the new myth machines for this assignment. (Hostnames for these machines are myth[51-66].stanford.edu) These machines contain four-core 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7 processors (although dynamic frequency scaling can take them to 4.5 GHz when the chip decides it is useful and possible to do so). Each core in the processor can execute AVX2 vector instructions which describe simultaneous execution of the same operation on multiple single-precision data values. For the curious, a complete specification for this CPU can be found at https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4-50-GHz-. Note: For grading purposes, we expect you to report on the performance of code run on the Stanford myth machines, however for kicks, you may also want to run the programs in this assignment on your own machine. (You will first need to install the Intel SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) available here: http://ispc.github.com/). Feel free to include your findings from running code on other machines in your report as well, just be very clear what machine you were running on.
ISPC is needed to compile many of the programs used in this assignment. ISPC can be easily installed on the myth machines through the following steps:
The assignment starter code is available on https://github.com/stanford-cs149/asst1. Please clone the Assignment 1 starter code using: git clone https://github.com/stanford-cs149/asst1.git