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Knowhere-related Configurations

This topic introduces the knowhere-related configurations of Milvus.

Knowhere is the search engine of Milvus.

Under this section, you can configure the default SIMD instruction set type of the system.

knowhere.simdType

Description Default Value
  • The CPU instruction set which can accelerate vector search and index building.
  • Options: auto, avx512, avx2, avx, and sse4_2
  • auto
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