Uniform Vectorization

What is Uniform Vectorization?

Uniform vectorization is the simplest form of vectorization where all the elements share the same computation at every time step with no specific processing for any element.

One stereotypical case is the Game of Life that has been invented by John Conway and is one of the earliest examples of cellular automata(see below). Those cellular automata can be conveniently regarded as an array of cells that are connected together with the notion of neighbors and their vectorization is straightforward.

Let me first define the game and we’ll see how to vectorize it!