Intel Threading Building Blocks

Have you seen the Smoke demo? Have you thought - yeah, it's pretty cool, but ... if only it had ... Zombies!?!? Come make it happen! Join us at the GDC tutorial (Tuesday, March 24 at GDC 2009 in San Francisco). You'll need a GDC tutorial pass. Spend the day experimenting with [...]

By: Wes Shimanek, Strategic Marketing Manager, Technical Computing, Intel Corporation Nash Palaniswamy PhD, Strategic Marketing Manager, Accelerated Computing, Intel Corporation The need to write scalable applications has been important for ... [More] programmers in the HPC community for years. Now, with the proliferation of multi/many-core processors and the availability of graphics adapters or data parallel accelerators with many ALU’s, scalability [...] [Less]

Today is the second anniversary of the Sun and Intel joint agreement to optimize the Solaris operating system for Intel Xeon processors. Like last year, when I wrote this summary of our work, I decided to recap where we are to date. Like last year’s edition, this is pretty much off the top of my [...]

Last time I posted the topic – "Compare Windows* threads, OpenMP*, Intel® Threading Building Blocks for parallel programming" , and listed their advantages and disadvantages.   Here is a simple example to show you performance data for different ... [More] implementations of calculating Pi. Yes, this is an extreme simple example but explained my previous post well (you [...] [Less]

As the Intel Software Partner Program begins the New Year, we would like to hear from you on what drives you to participate in a Software blog? (the information sharing? The feedback and interaction?) Please participate in this post; we would like to hear your voice.

The Intel Software Partner program can help map your business strategies to the latest market opportunities, develop innovative solutions using development tools, establish a stronger market presence, and achieve greater business success. The Program ... [More] currently offers a wide range of benefits and resources for Software Developers. (The program offers benefits and resources in the 3 main areas) 1.) [...] [Less]

Last time I laid out my plan for studying the partitioners. All that was left was to run the tests, collect and organize the data. Must have been a busy several months. It all went by in a blur.  So here I sit, snowed in on my Christmas break and I finally have a chance [...]

Jugoslav Dujic is our next Intel Black Belt Software Developer. Our selection team met couple weeks back and we received a unanimous vote for Jugoslav. Jugoslav has been a contributor to Intel Software Network for over 8 years (wow!) and has actively ... [More] supported our communities by participating in the discussion forums, providing product feedback and more. [...] [Less]

This is an interesting topic when we plan to implement parallel programs on multi-core system to best utilize processors. That means we want to divide (serial) big task into small tasks and let them running simultaneously.   Next question is what method will be used? There are three options – 1) Traditional Windows* Threads 2) OpenMP* 3) [...]

For those of you who prefer to purchase Intel software directly from the source, I have good news for you! Intel Developer software (including compilers, analyzers, cluster tools, threading tools, performance libraries, XML libraries as well as ... [More] support renewals)  can now all be purchased via the Intel Business Exchange Software Download Store, sx.intel.com. The store re-launched recently with a [...] [Less]