Using the Intel® Manycore Testing Lab: Classroom Research, Contests, and...
The Intel® Manycore Testing Lab is a 40 core/80 thread remote access facility that members of the Intel Academic Community sign up for and use (for free). It’s a direct benefit of joining the Intel...
View Article. Bull Mountain – it’s just darn exciting and important technology.
Aside from Bull Mountain being a geographical point in the US (there is actually more than one place called Bull Mountain, by the way), it is the "Code Name" for Intel's latest innovation in the...
View ArticleIntel® Power Checker
The Intel® Power Checker provides a quick assessment about power-related parameters of an application when it is idle and when it processes a workload. The tool is also detects whether the application...
View ArticlePVS-Studio has learned to watch over your programming
PVS-Studio now has an operation mode that will help you to find errors and misprints as soon as possible. The analyzer launches right after the files have been compiled and "blushes with shame" for...
View ArticleUsing the UMC::MP4Splitter with the Intel(R) Media Software Development Kit
Loc shares his experience about using MP4Splitter (demuxer) with the Intel(R) Media SDK. Read more > The post Using the UMC::MP4Splitter with the Intel(R) Media Software Development Kit appeared...
View ArticleOpenMP 3.1 API Specification Available
I'm happy to share some news for all the OpenMP folks out there! Last week the OpenMP Architecture Review Board has voted on the final release of the OpenMP 3.1 API Specification. After a successful...
View ArticleAntediluvian Holes and Pegs o’ my Heart
Have you ever been confronted and confused by too many choices? Seven Deadly Sins? Thirty-one flavors? 5000 fingers of Dr. T? 10,000 Maniacs? Sometimes it is enough to make you throw up your hands in...
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Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Modeling parallelism with...
Paul Petersen, Architect for the Intel(R) Parallel Studio product suite, will be presenting on July 21st at 9am PDT on "Modeling Parallelism with Intel® Parallel Advisor". Please register and attend....
View ArticleParallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++, the time has come.
It is time to make Parallelism a full First Class Citizen in C and C++. Hardware is once again ahead of software, and we need to close the gap so that application development is better able to utilize...
View ArticleThread Safety Analysis
DreamWorks Animation seeks to thread complex rendering applications that were written before threading was commonplace. This article shows a technique to find and fix thread safety issues by executing...
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Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Using Intel(R) Inspector XE...
Jackson Marusarz, Technical Consulting Engineer, will be presenting on Aug 17th at 9am PDT on "Using Intel(R) Inspector XE 2011 with Fortran Applications". Please register and attend. Read more >...
View ArticleInterview with Stewart McSherry of Xfrog and More
I have been using a program called Xfrog for more reasons than it has a great name. Many years ago I was told about it by several people, and one of them was Saty Raghavachary, a programmer and...
View ArticleMathematical Parallelization By Compilers
This is not to say that compilers can automatically parallelize code. I would however really like to see that happen and here is an interesting and reliable way to parallelize operations. If a compiler...
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Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Using Intel(R) VTune(TM)...
Shannon Cepeda, Technical Consulting Engineer, will be presenting on Nov 8th at 9am PDT. Please register! Read more > The post Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Using Intel(R) VTune(TM)...
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Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Using Intel(R) VTune(TM)...
Shannon Cepeda, Technical Consulting Engineer, will be presenting on Nov 9th at 9am PDT. Please register! Read more > The post Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Using Intel(R) VTune(TM)...
View ArticleReady for 2X Moore’s Law: Intel Cluster Studio XE
While Moore's Law continues to double transistor count every 18 months, the translation into performance of the Top 500 computers in the world is resulting in a much faster pace. Helping software...
View ArticleSpecification for Low Overhead Tool Annotations Released
Program analysis tools can be valuable for debugging program correctness and performance issues, even more so for multi-threaded programs. Some of these tools need to know about certain events in the...
View ArticleHow safe is your Fortran application?
Intel® Inspector XE is often recommended as a great tool for verifying the correctness and security of C++ applications, but it is important to note that this tool works just as well on Fortran and C#...
View ArticleOpen Parallel: Optimizing Web Performance with TBB
Open Parallel is a research and development company that focuses on parallel programming and multicore development. We are a bunch of highly skilled geeks from various backgrounds that work together on...
View ArticleSeeing One TeraFlop, the software side, and feeling a bit emotional
I've known this day was coming - but when I saw Knights Corner clearly sustaining a TeraFlop (DGEMM, wide range of block sizes) - I was surprised by my emotional reaction inside. Hard to describe; it...
View Articlequick chat about MIC architecture with Mike Dewar, NAG
I ran into Mike Dewar at SC11 today as the exhibition draws to a close. Mike is the CTO of NAG Ltd. - a company we've had the good fortune to work with for years. NAG is one of a handful of companies...
View ArticlePaving the Road to OpenMP 4
The dust of SC’11 starts to settle and several announcements around OpenMP have been made in Seattle. There has been a change in the OpenMP Architecture Review Board and Language Committee. Several new...
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Register for Intel(R) Technical Presentation "Analysis of hybrid applications...
Gergana Slavova, Technical Consulting Engineer, will be presenting "Analysis of hybrid applications with the Intel(R) Cluster Studio XE 2012" on Dec 7th at 9am PDT. Please register! Read more > The...
View ArticleDoctor Fortran in "Lest Old Acquaintance Be Forgot"
In some of my earlier posts I've discussed new features in the Fortran language that might be unfamiliar to some. But this time I'm going to go the other way and describe some really old language...
View ArticleDoctor Fortran Gets Explicit – Again!
Nearly 11 years ago (!) I wrote an item for the Visual Fortran Newsletter on explicit interfaces in Fortran. In recent weeks, I have had to refer quite a few customers to this article, suggesting that...
View ArticleHow to create AMT Certificates using the AMT SDK and OpenSSL
Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Ajith Illendula and Sudeepti Balepur for sending this guide to me in order to share with our vPro Developers Community. Objectives: 1. Create certificates for Intel...
View ArticleAccessing Intel® Power Gadget 2.0 library in C++
With the release of Intel® Power Gadget 2.0 there is now externally callable API’s to extract power information within sections of code. The API layer is a set of libraries and dlls that can be called...
View ArticleUpcoming February Technical Presentation
Happy New Year! A technical presentation has been scheduled for February 15, 2012: Future-Proof Your Application's Performance With Vectorization. This presentation is for C, C++, and Fortran...
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Register for Mark Davis’ presentation "Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011 Shows Its...
Mark Davis, Senior Principal Engineer for the Intel(R) Parallel Advisor 2011 product, will be presenting on June 22nd at 9am PDT on "Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011 Shows Its Stuff on Duplo". Please...
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