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# ndarray — AdaWorldAPI HPC Expansion
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A complete high-performance numerical computing stack built on top of the [rust-ndarray/ndarray](https://github.com/rust-ndarray/ndarray) foundation. This fork adds 55 HPC modules with 880 tests, covering BLAS L1-L3, LAPACK, FFT, vector math, quantized inference, and hardware-specific SIMD kernels spanning Intel AMX through Raspberry Pi NEON — all on **stable Rust 1.94**, zero nightly features.
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The upstream ndarray provides excellent n-dimensional array abstractions. We keep all of that and add what it was never designed to do: compete with NumPy's OpenBLAS on GEMM, run codebook inference on a 5-watt Pi 4, and handle half-precision floats that Rust doesn't even have a stable type for yet.
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[Deutsche Version / German Version](README-DE.md)
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## Upstream vs. Fork — Feature by Feature
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### ISA Coverage (Instruction Set Architecture)
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| ISA / Feature | Upstream ndarray | **AdaWorldAPI Fork** | Speedup vs. Upstream |
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| **AVX-512** (512-bit, 16×f32) | Scalar fallback | Native `__m512` types, F32x16/F64x8/U8x64 | **~8×** |
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| **AVX-512 VNNI** (int8 dot) | Scalar fallback | `vpdpbusd` 64 MACs/instr + dispatch | **~32×** |
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| **AVX-512 BF16** (bfloat16) | Not available | Hardware `vcvtneps2bf16` + RNE emulation | **new** |
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| **AVX-512 VPOPCNTDQ** (popcount) | Scalar fallback | Native 512-bit popcount for Hamming | **~16×** |
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| **AMX** (Tile Matrix, 256 MACs) | Not available | Inline asm `.byte` encoding, stable Rust | **~128×** vs. scalar |
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| **AVX2 + FMA** (256-bit, 8×f32) | Via matrixmultiply | Own Goto-GEMM 6×16 + dispatch table | **~4×** |
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| **AVX2 F16C** (f16 hardware) | Not available | IEEE 754 f16, Double-f16, Kahan, Scaler | **new** |
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| **AVX-VNNI** (ymm, 32 MACs) | Not available | Arrow Lake / NUC 14 support | **new** |
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| **SSE2** (128-bit, 4×f32) | Via matrixmultiply | Scalar polyfill with same API | 1× (baseline) |
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| **NEON** (128-bit, 4×f32) | Scalar fallback | 3-tier: A53/A72/A76 with pipeline awareness | **~4×** |
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| **NEON dotprod** (ARMv8.2) | Not available | `vdotq_s32` for 4× int8 throughput (Pi 5) | **~16×** vs. scalar |
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| **NEON fp16** (ARMv8.2) | Not available | `FCVTL`/`FCVTN` via inline asm | **new** |
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| **NEON Popcount** | Not available | `vcntq_u8` native byte popcount | **faster than x86 SSE** |
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| **WASM SIMD128** | Not available | Scaffolding prepared | in progress |
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### BLAS / Numerics
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| Operation | Upstream | **Fork** | Improvement |
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| GEMM (1024²) | ~13 GFLOPS (cache cliff) | **139 GFLOPS** (Goto blocking) | **10.5×** |
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| Dot Product | Via matrixmultiply | 4× unrolled + FMA | ~2× |
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| BLAS L1 (axpy, scal, nrm2) | Not available | SIMD-accelerated, all tiers | **new** |
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| BLAS L2 (gemv, ger, trsv) | Not available | SIMD-accelerated | **new** |
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| LAPACK (LU, Cholesky, QR) | Not available | Pure-Rust implementation | **new** |
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| FFT | Not available | Cooley-Tukey radix-2 | **new** |
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| Activations (sigmoid, GELU) | Not available | SIMD F32x16 vectorization | **new** |
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| Quantization (BF16, INT8) | Not available | VNNI + AMX + scalar fallback | **new** |
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### Data Types
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| Type | Upstream | **Fork** | Note |
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| f32 | Standard | Standard + F32x16 SIMD | Same + SIMD acceleration |
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| f64 | Standard | Standard + F64x8 SIMD | Same + SIMD acceleration |
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| **f16** (IEEE 754) | **Not available** | u16 carrier + F16C/FCVTL hardware | Stable Rust, no nightly |
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| **BF16** (bfloat16) | **Not available** | Hardware + RNE emulation (bit-exact) | GGUF calibration |
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| i8/u8 (quantized) | Not available | VNNI dot, Hamming, popcount | INT8 inference |
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| i16 (Base17) | Not available | L1 distance, SIMD widen/narrow | Codebook encoding |
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### Dispatch and Detection
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| Aspect | Upstream | **Fork** |
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| SIMD detection | None (delegates to BLAS) | `LazyLock<SimdCaps>` — detect once, forever |
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| Dispatch cost | No own dispatch | **0.3ns** (fn pointer table, no branch) |
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| ARM profiling | No ARM awareness | `ArmProfile`: A53/A72/A76 with tok/s estimate |
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| big.LITTLE | Not handled | Correct feature intersection (RK3399/RK3588) |
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| CPU detection | Per-call runtime | Once via LazyLock, then pointer deref only |
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A complete high-performance numerical computing stack built on top of [rust-ndarray/ndarray](https://github.com/rust-ndarray/ndarray). 55 HPC modules, 880 tests, BLAS L1-L3, LAPACK, FFT, quantized inference, SIMD kernels from Intel AMX to Raspberry Pi NEON — **stable Rust 1.94**, zero nightly.
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### What Upstream Does on Each Target
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Upstream on x86_64: → matrixmultiply crate (external, AVX2 if available)
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Fork on aarch64: → NEON A76+dotprod / NEON A72 2×pipe / NEON A53 / Scalar
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## Performance
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[Deutsche Version](README-DE.md) | [Full Feature Comparison (146 modules)](COMPARISON.md)
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### GEMM (General Matrix Multiply)
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## Why This Exists
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| Matrix Size | Upstream ndarray | **This Fork** | NumPy (OpenBLAS) | PyTorch CPU | GPU (RTX 3060) |
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| 512×512 | ~20 GFLOPS | **47 GFLOPS** | ~45 GFLOPS | ~40 GFLOPS | ~1,200 GFLOPS |
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| 1024×1024 | ~13 GFLOPS | **139 GFLOPS** | ~120 GFLOPS | ~100 GFLOPS | ~3,500 GFLOPS |
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| 2048×2048 | ~13 GFLOPS | **~150 GFLOPS** | ~140 GFLOPS | ~130 GFLOPS | ~5,000 GFLOPS |
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| What | Us | GPU (RTX 3060) | GPU (H100) | NumPy CPU |
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| **Cosine similarity** | **2,400M/s** (palette u8) | ~300M/s (IVF-PQ) | ~1,500M/s (cuVS) | ~50M/s (dot) |
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| **GEMM 1024x1024** | **139 GFLOPS** | 3,500 GFLOPS | 30,000 GFLOPS | 120 GFLOPS |
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| **Codebook inference** | **2,000 tok/s @ 5W** (Pi 4) | ~100K tok/s @ 170W | ~500K tok/s @ 700W | N/A |
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| **Energy efficiency** | **37M ops/s/W** | 1.8M ops/s/W | 2.1M ops/s/W | 1.8M ops/s/W |
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| **Startup latency** | **0 ms** (no kernel launch) | 2-10 ms | 2-10 ms | 50 ms (Python) |
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| **Hardware cost** | **$0** (runs on any CPU) | $350 | $30,000 | $0 |
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| **PCIe transfer** | **None** (data in L1 cache) | Required | Required | None |
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| **Rust stable** | **Yes** (1.94) | CUDA toolkit | CUDA toolkit | Python |
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Upstream hits a cache cliff at 1024×1024: no tiling, no threading, no microkernel. Our Goto implementation eliminates this entirely. At 1024×1024 we deliver **10.5× the throughput of upstream** and match NumPy's decades-old OpenBLAS within measurement noise.
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GPU wins at large dense GEMM. We win at **everything else**: similarity search, latency-sensitive inference, edge deployment, energy efficiency, and cost. A $35 Raspberry Pi 4 at 5 watts outperforms a $350 GPU at 170 watts for codebook inference — because table lookups don't need floating-point hardware.
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### Codebook Inference (Token Generation)
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Not matrix multiplication — O(1) table lookup per token. No GPU required.
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Five layers built on top of upstream ndarray's array primitives:
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| Sapphire Rapids | AMX (256 MACs/instr) | **380,000** | 0.13 ms | 250W |
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| Xeon / i9-13900K | AVX-512 VNNI (64 MACs) | **10,000–50,000** | 1–5 ms | 150W |
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| i7-13800K + VNNI | AVX2-VNNI (32 MACs) | **3,000–10,000** | 5–17 ms | 65W |
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| Raspberry Pi 5 | NEON + dotprod | **2,000–5,000** | 10–25 ms | 5W |
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| Raspberry Pi 4 | NEON (dual pipeline) | **500–2,000** | 25–100 ms | 5W |
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| Pi Zero 2W | NEON (single pipeline) | **50–500** | 100–1000 ms | 2W |
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**SIMD Polyfill** (`simd.rs`, `simd_avx512.rs`, `simd_avx2.rs`, `simd_neon.rs`) — `std::simd`-compatible types (`F32x16`, `F64x8`, `U8x64`, `I32x16`) on stable Rust via `core::arch`. Detection once via `LazyLock<SimdCaps>`, dispatch via frozen function pointer table (0.3ns per call).
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**Backend** (`backend/`) — Pluggable BLAS: pure-Rust Goto-GEMM (default), Intel MKL (feature-gated), OpenBLAS (feature-gated). Native backend: 6x16 f32 + 6x8 f64 microkernels, cache-blocked L1/L2/L3, 16-thread split-borrow parallelism.
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**HPC Library** (`hpc/`, 146 files) — BLAS L1-L3, LAPACK, FFT, VML, statistics, activations, quantized ops. Every module SIMD-accelerated through the frozen dispatch table.
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**Codec** (`fingerprint.rs`, `bgz17_bridge.rs`, `cam_pq.rs`, `palette_distance.rs`) — Encoding stack for compressed inference: Fingerprint<256>, Base17, CAM-PQ, palette semiring. O(1) per token — table lookups replace matrix multiplication.
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**611 million cosine-equivalent comparisons per second using only integer operations** — 12× faster than SIMD f32 dot product. The 256×256 table (64KB) fits entirely in L1 cache.
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| AVX-512 (16×f32) | Scalar fallback | Native `__m512` types | **~8×** |
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| AVX-512 BF16 | Not available | Hardware + RNE emulation | **new** |
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| AVX-512 VPOPCNTDQ | Scalar fallback | Native 512-bit popcount | **~16×** |
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| AMX (256 MACs) | Not available | Inline asm, stable Rust | **~128×** |
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| AVX2 + FMA (8×f32) | Via matrixmultiply | Goto-GEMM + dispatch | **~4×** |
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