Abstract:
Techniques for converting FP16 to BF8 using bias are described. An exemplary embodiment utilizes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include one or more fields to identify a first source operand, one or more fields to identify a second source operand, one or more fields to identify a source/destination operand, and one or more fields for an opcode, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed half-precision data from the identified first and second sources to packed bfloat8 data using bias terms from the identified source/destination operand and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified source/destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to convert packed half-precision data from the identified first and second sources to packed bfloat8 data using bias terms from the identified source/destination operand and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified source/destination operand.
Abstract:
Techniques for converting FP16 to BF8 using bias are described. An exemplary embodiment utilizes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include one or more fields to identify a first source operand, one or more fields to identify a second source operand, one or more fields to identify a source/destination operand, and one or more fields for an opcode, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed half-precision data from the identified first and second sources to packed bfloat8 data using bias terms from the identified source/destination operand and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified source/destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to convert packed half-precision data from the identified first and second sources to packed bfloat8 data using bias terms from the identified source/destination operand and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified source/destination operand.
Abstract:
Techniques for converting FP16 data elements to BF8 data elements using a single instruction are described. An exemplary apparatus includes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include a one or more fields to identify a source operand, one or more fields to identify a destination operand, and one or more fields for an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to 8-bit floating-point matrix dot product instructions are described. A processor embodiment includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a destination matrix having single-precision elements, a first source matrix, and a second source matrix, the source matrices having elements that each comprise a quadruple of 8-bit floating-point values, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to cause, for each element of the first source matrix and corresponding element of the second source matrix, a conversion of the 8-bit floating-point values to single-precision values, a multiplication of different pairs of converted single-precision values to generate plurality of results, and an accumulation of the results with previous contents of a corresponding element of the destination matrix, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and the execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
Abstract:
Techniques for FP8 classification or manipulation using single instructions are described. An exemplary instruction includes fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a packed data source operand, an indication of one or more classification checks to perform, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operand, a classification according to the indicated one or more classification checks and store a result of the classification in a corresponding data element position of the destination operand.
Abstract:
Techniques for scale and reduction of FP8 data elements are described. An exemplary instruction includes fields for an having fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a first packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operands, a floating point scale operation of a FP8 data element of the first packed data source by multiplying the data element by a power of 2 value, wherein a value of the exponent of the power of 2 value is a floor value of a FP8 data element of the second packed data source, and store a result of the floating point scale operation into a corresponding data element position of the packed data destination operand.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a processor may include a vector unit to perform operations on multiple data elements responsive to a single instruction, and a control unit coupled to the vector unit to provide the data elements to the vector unit, where the control unit is to enable an atomic vector operation to be performed on at least some of the data elements responsive to a first vector instruction to be executed under a first mask and a second vector instruction to be executed under a second mask. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
A processor executes a mask update instruction to perform updates to a first mask register and a second mask register. A register file within the processor includes the first mask register and the second mask register. The processor includes execution circuitry to execute the mask update instruction. In response to the mask update instruction, the execution circuitry is to invert a given number of mask bits in the first mask register, and also to invert the given number of mask bits in the second mask register.
Abstract:
Techniques for performing FP8 FMA in response to an instruction are described. In some examples, an instruction has fields for an opcode, an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand (a first source), an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a third packed data source operand, and an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate operand ordering and that execution circuitry is to, per data element position, perform a FP8 value fused multiply-accumulate operation using the first, second, and third source operands and store a result in a corresponding data element position of the source/destination operand, wherein the FP8 value has an 8-bit floating point format that comprises one bit for a sign, at least 4 bits for an exponent, and at least two bits for a fraction.
Abstract:
Techniques for converting FP8 data elements to FP16 or FP32 data elements using a single instruction are described. An example apparatus includes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed FP8 data from the identified source to packed half-precision floating-point data or single-precision floating point data and store the packed half-precision floating-point data or single-precision floating point data into corresponding data element positions of the identified destination operand.