IBM has "Vector" instructions, but the size of a vector is limited to one 
quadword. Usefull, but not what you normally think of as SIMD.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf 
of Ze'ev Atlas [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 12:56 AM
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Subject: Does the z architecture have something like the SIMD instructions

I admit being away from the mainframe for long time.  Most of my work is on 
Solaris and Linux servers and therefore I do not code in Assembler.  However, I 
was active in porting a C library into classic z/OS.I was looking to do another 
port and stumbled upon the fact that that library has several SIMD architecture 
specific extensions (Altivec, Neon are two examples).  While I can ignore that 
stuff, I became somewhat interested in the subject.
Ze'ev Atlas

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