Wintel is entering the era of parallelism in lockstep. Intel is partnering with Microsoft to create a suite of interoperable tools for parallel programming in Visual Studio in C and C++.

Today, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel announced that it will be conducting open beta tests of Intel Parallel Studio products beginning late this year and through mid-2009. The studio consists of four separate components for code analysis, design, debugging and performance tuning that integrate with Visual Studio.

Intel will standardize on Microsoft’s forthcoming concurrency runtime for Windows to ensure application and tool interoperability. The runtime will be included with the next version of Visual Studio, said James Reinders, chief product evangelist and director of marketing for Intel’s Software Development Products Division.

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