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We created a new one day course on parallelism and threading. This is a great opportunity to learn about threading software for multi-core platforms. This course is targeted for Windows* C++ developers using Microsoft Visual Studio* 2005 or 2008. If you are in that category keep reading! The performance benefits [...]

Today we launched Intel Software Network Idea Zone!  The objective of the Idea Zone is to harness the wealth of community knowledge for product innovation. I am hoping that Idea Zone will establish an ongoing conversation where you have an ... [More] opportunity to share your new ideas on existing products (new features, improvements), provide product suggestions as [...] [Less]

Several years ago, when I looked for training courses on the subject of parallel programming for shared memory systems I found few courses being offered.  Some friends of mine and I did find a very nice course from a 3rd-party vendor on threaded programming.  The course mainly focused on "C" and using POSIX threads to [...]

Like in the previous post about concurrent_vector, I’d like to start from a sentence buried in the Reference Manual, Section 4.4.6.1, which describes the size() method: “The result may include elements that are under construction by concurrent calls ... [More] to any of the growth methods”. It means that you can not safely traverse across a container instance in [...] [Less]

Lately a sequence of interesting things happened to me. It started with finding an aptly titled paper "TLRW: Return of the Read-Write Lock" by Dave Dice and Nir Shavit. A couple of weeks later, I got an email asking a question about how to use TBB read/write locks (i.e., spin_rw_mutex). A week or so later, [...]

Greetings everyone! I would like to introduce you to a new template function recently added to TBB – tbb::parallel_invoke. It provides TBB users a simple way to run several functions in parallel. So, for example, if you have three functions that do some work and you would like to run them simultaneously, you may write [...]

In these competitive and challenging times, accelerating your software development to get to market sooner can be key to success.  The Intel® Software Partner Program launched our Accelerate! campaign to highlight valuable development tools and ... [More] resources to help our members to complete their software development and successfully go to market.  In addition, we are offering [...] [Less]

If you had 4 days to teach parallel programming… to high school students …  Setup Let’s say you were given an invitation to lead a summer camp for high school students – a 4 day long day camp with students coming in from various schools and the only thing they have in common is that they are [...]

Congratulations to Timothy Prince and Vladimir Dudnik, our latest Intel Employee Black Belt title holders :). Tim has over 4,000 contributions to his credit and has put in a phenomenal level of time & effort supporting members in the discussion forums over the past 8 years. Thank you Tim! Vladimir, an ISN member since 2004 has [...]