Explain Parallelism and how parallelism improves how computers perform arithmetic and why it matters $($see chapter $3$ of the textbook as a starting point$).$ Submit a paper longer than one page $($with single$-$spaced lines$)$ following APA guidelines. A well$-$explained diagram will help. Include at least $3$ references using APA format and CITE THEM in the paper.

How to do well

Always include an introduction and a conclusion

An example of the data types used by multimedia would be great. Why are they low precision?

Matrix math operations are a great example of subword parallelism and are fundamental to multimedia processing.

Some more details would make this better. For example, does AVX operate on subwords in a single register or on data in multiple registers?

How do you tell a CPU to use the advanced instruction sets for multimedia processing when writing software?

Examples of new instructions for subword parallelism would be good to provide. How big a change to the ISA was made by Intel in the $90\text{'}$s$?$

Specific CPU families, with the various architectures for parallelism would be great to identify.

Some suggestions to cover $($you are NOT expected to cover all, this is just to help you get going$)$:

How does subword parallelism work in a CPU?

Over the last $30$ years there have been major revisions to the Intel Instruction Set Architecture $($ISA$)$ to support subword parallelism. Describe some changes.

How does this help, especially with multimedia data?

Do GPU's support subword parallelism?

how does this relate to SIMD architectures?

what about LIW and VLIW architectures? What are they for and where are they used?