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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

Intel doubles Itanium speed

Intel's says its upcoming 64-bit Itanium 2 chip will be twice as fast as the original enabling it to compete with high-end systems from Sun Microsystems and IBM. Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance...

Tags: Performance, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Intel Corp., Chip, Parallelism, Processors, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John G. Spooner

News items 2002-05-29

Additional Resources

Is Nvidia planning to add X86 compatibility to its chipsets?

I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...

Tags: Processors, Video Decoding, chipset, Intel x86, CPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., GPU, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)

Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Programming, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Unified Parallel C, Berkeley Unified Parallel C, Apple Mac OS X, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Apple Mac OS, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Intel: 32nm is just the beginning

Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...

Tags: Graphics, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Westmere, Sandy Bridge, Process Technology, Larrabee, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-23

What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?

RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...

Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Snow Leopard geared for multicore future

You do realize that...You do realize that GCD is just a combination of 2 technologies that already existed previously on other platforms, right?a) Apple finally added "closures", aka "anonymous methods" or "lambda expressions" to Objective-C. Other languages have had this for many many years, and it is what you need...

Tags: Apple Inc., multi-core

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Hold 6 and 4 keys at boot to enable 64-bit Snow Leopard

Can you clarify this for me?I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, or at least I thought I was. Now I'm not so sure since I don't hold the 6 or the 4 key when I boot up. Since there is no way that Windows is ever...

Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, 64-bit, 32-bit, Snow Leopard, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Corsair's Dominator GT DDR3 RAM back on sale

Corsair's Dominator GT DDR3 RAM back on saleI've had three DDR2-1066 ...Corsair pairs crater in the last two months. Corsair was kind enough to honor their warranty. I have noticed while looking at the SPD numbers using AMD's AOD that the 533 timings appear to be tighter than the 400...

Tags: Memory, Corsair, RAM

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Intel C++ Compiler Professional 11.1 (Mac)

Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. It provides the most comprehensive multicore and standards support with more parallelism development features; more IntelR Advanced Vector Extensions, Advanced Encryption Standard, and SSE support; more Fortran 2003 features; and improved...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, C++ Compiler, Compiler, Intel Corp., Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-06-24

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives 6.1 (Windows)

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives is an extensive library of multicore-ready, highly optimized software functions for digital media and data-processing applications. Intel IPP offers thousands of optimized functions covering frequently-used fundamental algorithms. Deferred Mode Image Processing Framework delivers pipelined parallelism, dramatically improving performance of pipelined image operations, especially on larger images....

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, Performance Management, Digital Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security

Software downloads 2009-06-23

Intel Math Kernel Library 10.2 (Windows)

Intel Math Kernel Library provides an expedient way to achieve parallelism for math routines--the mainstay in scientific, engineering, and financial codes--to realize the performance benefits of Intel Architecture platforms. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math, and more. Offering performance optimizations for Intel...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Intel Math Kernel Library, Intel MKL, Intel MKL 10.2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-06-23