BFLOAT16 square root and/or reciprocal square root instructions

A system comprising:

• memory to store an instance of a single instruction;
• decode circuitry to decode the instance of the single instruction, the single instruction to include fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a packed data source operand, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operand, a calculation of a square root value of a BF 16 data element in that position and store a result of each square root into a corresponding data element position of the packed data destination operand;
• and
• the execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode, wherein the execution circuitry is to suppress numerical flags during execution of the decoded instruction, treat input denormal data elements as zeros during execution of the decoded instruction, round to a nearest even, and flush output denormal data elements to zero.