Most machines now run mutli-core processors, which is great at increasing throughput. Unfortunately this increased activity also means latency occurs and the time your applications take to run can take its toll on your patience.
The Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge is attempting to address this problem with an operating system called “BarrelFish.”
Dr Andrew Herbert, managing [...]

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By Arch Robison
Moving your application from TBB 2.2 to TBB 3.0 should be painless. We take backward compatibility seriously, and try to avoid breaking changes. But occasionally we judge the benefit of a break to outweigh its costs. For TBB 3.0, the breaking changes are few. It’s unlikely you’ll run [...]

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By Terry Wilmarth
Here’s a brief summary of the major changes since the release of version 2.2:
Extended compatibility and interoperability support
• Added support for Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2010
• Intel® TBB 3.0 can run on top of Microsoft* Concurrency Runtime on Microsoft* Windows* 7
• Added Microsoft* Parallel Patterns Library*-compatible critical_section and reader_writer_lock
• Apple* Snow Leopard* support
• C++0x [...]

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by Sean Koehl
The amount of data generated by humans worldwide is growing at an annual rate of 60% and may reach the staggering number of one zetabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information, according to Intel Fellow Jim Held (citing research data from IDC). He gave one of the opening talks in Brussels this week at [...]

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This week Intel brought out a powerful new Atom processor that, according to them, could fit into an iPhone form, is vastly more powerful with similar battery life, and is priced competitively.
From a technology standpoint it is an impressive piece of work and had anyone argued that an x86 processor could even come close to [...]

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Abstract
This text contains links to the best posts of the blog conducted by the workers of OOO Program Verification Systems company. The notes are devoted to the topic of 64-bit and parallel OpenMP software development.
Introduction
On reading the article Information architecture of blogs (RU) [1], we had to agree with its main thesis blog is a [...]

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by James Reinders
Intel introduced Threading Building Blocks 3.0 (TBB) on May 4th. TBB 3.0 builds on the past four years of TBB by adding to the breadth and depth of features in the library, improving performance, and in the Windows version utilizing the latest developments from Microsoft to support parallelism.
Key new capabilities take advantage of [...]

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Vector Fabrics cloud tools to automate sequential C code analysis for multi-threading
Vector Fabrics announces vfAnalyst, a cloud-based tool for parallelizing sequential C code. The first in a planned family of cloud computing tools, vfAnalyst enables software engineers to easily identify the most promising parallelization opportunities so that they can create an effective multicore implementation much [...]

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Join James Reinders, Chief Software Evangelist and Director of Software Development Products at Intel Corporation, for a series of dialogues with fellow industry leaders and innovators. Learn the very latest about how to bring threading to robust Windows* applications and pull more from multicore platforms.
Select the webinar(s) you would like to attend and then click [...]

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By Matthew Dublin
The fastest high-performance computing system in the world is the National Center for Computational Science’s “Jaguar,” a Cray XT5 supercomputer with a peak performance of 2.33 petaflops — roughly 2,000 trillion calculations per second — that came online in 2009. Given that the petascale barrier has only recently been broken, it may come [...]

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The ATI Stream software development kit was bumped up to version 2.1 on Monday, receiving a hefty dose of OpenCL capabilities in the run-up to AMD’s Fusion series of “accelerated processing units” (APUs) scheduled to appear next year.
Not that devs using the new ATI Stream SDK 2.1 will have to wait until then to take [...]

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The time-consuming scientific research behind drug discovery can now be accelerated with the launch of AMBER 11, a software tool that enables bio-scientists to harness the power of supercomputing on their desktop PC.
AMBER 11, the latest version of one of the most widely used applications for biochemists and others involved in molecular dynamics research, [...]

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The course served as an introductory course in parallel programming. It offered a series of lectures on parallel programming concepts as well as a group project providing hands-on experience with parallel programming. The course was designed to develop an understanding of:
* Fundamental design philosophies that multicore architectures address.
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