As hardware trends away from faster clocks towards more cores per chip, software must adapt to take advantage of multi-core architectures. Performance gains will have to come from parallelizing applications instead of waiting for more cycles per second.
Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite along with Intel® Parallel Studio lay out a multi-step process to aid developers in transitioning their serial code to parallel code. This blog article will focus on the first step of the process: How to determine where to add parallelism in an application.
