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Title: Intel releases a new version of IPP
Post by: michael37 on 30 Nov 2006, 06:03:09 am
Repost for benefit of those who no longer read the berkeley board.

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* The Intel® IPP 5.2 Beta is now available! Please visit the Intel IPP 5.2 Beta program web site for more information including a complete feature list, system requirements and registration information:

http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/beta.htm

What’s New in the Intel IPP 5.2 Beta?

    * Expanded Optimizations in latest Intel® microarchitecture
          o Intel® Core™2 Duo processors for Intel® 64 (formerly Intel® EM64T) architecture
          o Intel® Core™2 Quad processor optimizations in functions and code sample
    * Expanded Mac OS* Support
          o New optimizations for 64-bit Intel® Architecture
          o XCode* integration document
          o New samples for JPEG and Image Processing (see Mac OS samples)
    * New support for Microsoft Windows* Vista operating system.
    * Data Compression: Performance improvements and expanded functionality (See Data Compression sample)
          o Improvements on Compression and Decompression performance for Intel IPP based zlib primitives
          o Improvement on ease of integration from open source zlib library to Intel IPP based zlib functionality
          o Improvements on performance for Intel IPP based LZSS primitives
    * Expanded new features and optimizations for High Definition (HD) video applications
          o Added SMPTE 421M video codec standard (VC-1) support
                + VC-1 Simple/Main/Advanced Profiles video decoder support functions
                + VC-1 full featured decoder (Simple/Main/Advanced Profiles) component in Media Processing Sample
          o Expanded H.264 support and Optimizations
                + H.264 High Profiles decoder support (High 4:2:0, High 4:2:2 and High 10) in H.264 decode component
                + H.264 High Profile encoding support in 2 new added functions
                + H.264 encoding functions optimizations
    * Added New DV codecs: DV50\100 decoders primitives and DV25\50 encoders primitives
    * Documentation Improvements:
          o Sample build documentation improvements
          o Added documents for Unified Media Class (UMC) model in Media Processing Sample
          o Added documents for Unified Speech Class (USC) model in Speech Coding Sample
    * New ippRR domain that contains Realistic Rendering functionality.
    * Audio Coding:
          o Floating point versions of PQMF filters for MP3 encoder and decoder.
          o Functions for supporting of fixed point version of HEAAC decoder.
          o Fixed point version of forward and inverse mode of MDCT designed especially for AAC and MP3 decoders.
          o New version of VLC functions designed especially for platforms with low (or bad) data cache.
    * Signal Processing: Several new customer requested functionality including IIRGen
    * Image Processing: 16u data support added for more then 70% of ippIP functionality
    * JPEG processing: New functions for JPEG Extended Baseline mode (12-bit per sample) and RLE coding support, used in DICOM medical images
    * OpenCV performance optimizations
    * Computer Vision:
          o New Fixed filters 8u8s and Separable column filters 16s8s
          o New True L2 distance transform and Fast Marching distance transform functions
          o Image inpainting (restoration)
          o Image segmentation
          o Transform color gradient to gray-scale
                + Image segmentation by image gradient
                + Image segmentation by watershed
                + Image segment handling (border draw and labeling)
                + Background/foreground segmentation by Gaussians and by histograms
          o SIFT features support for Gaussian filters and Peak search

Title: Re: Intel releases a new version of IPP
Post by: BenHer on 30 Nov 2006, 11:29:02 am
Seti currently only uses Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT).  Didn't see that in the list.

Perhaps they improved speed for it on 64 bit O/S.
Title: Re: Intel releases a new version of IPP
Post by: michael37 on 30 Nov 2006, 12:05:04 pm
Seti currently only uses Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT).  Didn't see that in the list.

Perhaps they improved speed for it on 64 bit O/S.

I bet the FFT routines got a face lift for Dual Core 2 and Quad Core 2s.