# OpenPOWER Summit 2021 Links * * # Abstract *Draft SVP64 in-place Matrix Multiply and FFT / DCT for OpenPOWER* Advanced Cray-style Vectors are being developed for the Power ISA, as a Draft Extension for submission to the new OpenPOWER ISA Working Group, named SVP64. Whilst in-place Matrix Multiply was planned for a much later advanced version of SVP64, an investigation into putting FFMPEG's MP3 CODEC inner loop into Vectorised Assembler resulted in such a large drop in code size (over 4x reduction) that it warranted priority investigation. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and Number-Theory Transform (NTT) form the basis of too numerous high-priority algorithms to count. Normal SIMD Processors and even normal Vector Processors have a hard time dealing with them: inspecting FFMPEG's source code reveals that heavily optimised inline assembler (no loops, just hundreds to thousands of lines of assembler) is not uncommon. The focus of this NLnet-sponsored research is therefore to create enhancements to SVP64 to be able to cover DFT, DCT, NTT and Matrix-Multiply entirely in-place. In-place is crucially important for many applications (3D, Video) to keep power consumption down by avoiding register spill as well as L1/L2 cache strip-mining. General-purpose RADIX-2 DCT and complex DFT will be shown and explained, as well as the in-place Matrix Multiply which does not require transposing or register spill for any sized Matrices (including non-power-two) up to 128 FMACs. The basics of SVP64, covered in the Overview [1], will also be briefly described. [1] https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/overview/