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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2012
Gregory J. Faanes, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Eric P. Lundberg, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Abdulla Bataineh, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Timothy J. Johnson, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Michael Parker, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
James Robert Kohn, St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven L. Scott, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Robert Alverson, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory J. Faanes, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Eric P. Lundberg, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Abdulla Bataineh, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Timothy J. Johnson, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Michael Parker, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
James Robert Kohn, St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven L. Scott, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Robert Alverson, Seattle, WA (US);
Cray Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A processor core, comprises one or more vector units operable to change between a fine-grained vector mode having a shorter maximum vector length and a coarse-grained vector mode having a longer maximum vector length. Changing vector modes comprises halting all instruction stream execution in the core, flushing one or more registers in a register space, reconfiguring one or more vector registers in the register space, and restarting instruction execution in the core.