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Intel announces parallel coding tools

Intel announced a suite of parallel coding tools, designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Parallelism isn't new - but, according to Intel, the time has come for parallelism to move forward. From an FAQ on Intel's Parallelism site: Until recently, parallelism wasn't commonplace. Parallelism is the ability to...

Tags: Tool, Intel Corp., Parallelism, Mary-Jo Foley, Intel Software Development Product, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism

Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelismMore InvestmentTwo words. How long? This new commitment is certainly a good direction, but it's hard to see it as leadership at this late stage. The move into parallelism is a great equalizer. The laws of diminishing returns are applied across the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Games, Game players, parallelism, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

Building your own supercomputer

Building your own supercomputerOkay I have a horse in this race but...I just came from the BARC conference (Boston area ARChitecture, dumb acronym, good little conference) last week. We always get a higher-up rep from Intel or AMD along with the folks from the Universities around Boston-- it's a...

Tags: Semiconductors, Development tools, Parallelism, supercomputer, desktop, chip, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

A speculation about parallelism

A speculation about parallelismYou're all knowing Murphy?"Notice that if the pipe were made of transparent stuff you could follow the data as it rolled down the pipe and see, even if the ball breaks up into bits for part of the trip, exactly where each step happens as it morphs...

Tags: Processors, CPU, parallelism

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

Who's afraid of parallelism?

Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Who's afraid of parallelism?

A key reason the enormous performance potential offered by IBMs cell processor has yet to be realized with any substantive application is that programmers are currently caught between rocks and hard places when working with Cell. On the rocks side, IBMs compilers are good and getting better fast, but lots...

Tags: parallelism, Linux, Hardware, General

Blog posts 2006-11-30

Rogue Wave has identified a top-tier SOA capability that deeply exploits parallelism and virtualization

Rogue Wave Software is set to announce in April version 3.0 of its Hydra SOA framework, and in doing so has carved out a new top-end niche in SOA. I call it Transactional Integrity SOA TIS because of the high-performance character, transactional depth, and exploitation of parallelism and virtualization technologies....

Tags: Rogue Wave Software, Hydra SOA framework, Hydra SOA

Blog posts 2006-03-29

Embedded development testing benefit moves to Linux

I recently took an extended briefing in the form of attending a regional developers' conference in I-495 tech corridor Massachusetts on embedded development and deployment strategies. The host, Wind River, did a good job of balancing their desire to promote their COTS wares with highlighting the building wave Multi-core devices...

Tags: parallelism, Wind River Systems

Blog posts 2005-12-20

APL, Parallelism, 44.8 < 3.6

APL, Parallelism, 44.8 < 3.6well..I think the massive increase in parallelism in the processors would be best utilized if a user/the system would dedicate certain cpus to certain task/process/service/threads. In an unix environment dedicating one processor to run Apache, another to handle mysql, i know it could get messy...

Tags: Development tools, Processors, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Sun Solaris 10, APL, compiler, processor, Parallelism, CPU, software, Unix

Discussion threads 2005-08-10

Additional Resources

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...

Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

News to know: Apple patch; IBM; PC upgrades; EDS; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes Nate McFeters: Black Hat talk on Apple encryption flaw pulled Black Hat Sneak Preview Larry Dignan: IBM plans building spree: To build $360M...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, PC, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., FireWire, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Microsoft's road to the cloud is paved with parallelism

A new whitepaper that Microsoft researchers are set to present at a conference next month sheds more light on Microsoft's back-end cloud infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cosmos, Helland, Team Management, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Databases, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Free the XBOX 360!!!

Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?

Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Microsoft's multicore strategy

Microsoft's multicore strategymulticoreinfoA link is provided to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , the hub for multicore related resources.Moderately talented?"...enables the moderately talented to produce functional software. Enabling Visual Basic programmers to exploit multicore chips is no mean feat."Say what? I use VB because its easier and faster to develop...

Tags: multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Microsoft's manycore strategy

The post on Apple's Grand Central multicore support in OS X.vi had some commenters claiming that Microsoft had already solved the multicore software problem. Far from it. And Microsoft knows it Microsoft has a multi-pronged campaign to get in front of multicore. They're hiring smart...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, MR, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-25

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 for SAP Customers (Level 200)

This webcast talks about what will be delivered to SAP customers in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 including compression, minimal logging, parallelism improvements, and query handling enhancements. This webcast shows how upgrading or migrating to SQL Server 2008 can result in multiple improvements for the SAP implementations.

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP AG, Microsoft TechNet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-06-12

Jobs on OS X: "We’re going to hit the pause button on new features"

Jobs on OS X: "We’re going to hit the pause button on new features"I hit the pause button with Tiger.Leopard doesn't offer any compelling reason for me to move off of Tiger. Tiger is a great OS and does all I need it to.RE: Jobs on OS X:I thought Sony's...

Tags: Chipsets, Operating systems, Semiconductors, Apple Mac OS X, pause button, Apple Inc., job

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Jobs on OS X: "We're going to hit the pause button on new features"

Today a reader sent me a link to an article on the NY Times Bits blog. The piece was reporting on Apple's growing emphasis on parallelism in the next version of the Mac OS X operating system dubbed Snow Leopard. One bit, however, caught my eye ... by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Feature, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Thinking about multicore and software

Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...

Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-09