• Google sends multicore warning: wimpy cores don’t cut it

    Updated: 2010-09-29 16:37:40
    Google’s senior vice president of operations has written a short but powerful paper for IEEE Micro, in which he advises companies to exercise caution before deploying too many “wimpy cores”. While Urs Hoelzle says Google is enthusiastic about supporting multicore systems, he adds there can be drawbacks to using wimpy-core systems, which are those where the single core performance [...]

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    Updated: 2010-09-29 12:49:03
    Work Play Support About Intel Change Location Search Home Home Download Center Download Center Find drivers , BIOS , utilities , firmware , patches , updates , plug-ins and other support software . Search downloads Search tips Search downloads Select a language English Deutsch Español América Français Italiano Português Brasil Русский 繁體中文 简体中文 日本語 한국어 Find downloads by product name Start Over Active Products Discontinued Products Active Products Discontinued Products There are no options available for this selection . Select another item in the previous column Select a product family Chipsets Desktop Boards Desktop Platforms Embedded Components and Flash Memory Ethernet Components Graphics Healthcare Products Internet Devices Network Connectivity

  • How Civilization V built its empire on multithreading

    Updated: 2010-09-29 11:56:06
    Nine million gamers can’t be wrong. That’s how many Civilization games have been sold worldwide, making it one of the most popular gaming series ever to be released. But version five of this strategy classic has had a multithreaded makeover which leaves the previous versions standing. And it might have the nine million and more [...]

  • Register for the free multicore virtual conference

    Updated: 2010-09-27 10:46:21
    EE Times is hosting a virtual conference called ‘Approaching Multicore.’ It is billed as unique because it’s designed for a wide-ranging audience including “system architects, high-performance system designers, software developers, programmers and future, hesitant and curious multicore developers.” The conference is scheduled for Thursday 30 September, running from 11am to 6pm EDT (4pm-11pm, UK time). [...]

  • Intel® Software Development Products List Intel® Software Network

    Updated: 2010-09-24 06:49:01
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    Updated: 2010-09-24 06:49:00
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    Updated: 2010-09-24 06:48:59
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  • IDF 2010: Five steps to parallel programming heaven

    Updated: 2010-09-22 16:45:35
    Last week at IDF, James Reinders (evangelist for Intel’s software and services group) delivered a presentation in partnership with Steve Teixeira (Product Unit Manager, Parallel Computing Platform Developer Division, Microsoft) to show how Intel tools and Microsoft’s Visual Studio work well together. The key lesson, Teixeira said, was that the paradigms used in both are [...]

  • IDF 2010: A sneak peak at the new Intel Array Building Blocks

    Updated: 2010-09-22 14:21:05
    Last week at IDF, I got a first look at the new Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB), a new approach for exploiting the multicore and SIMD hardware of a machine. As I blogged, previously, Intel Array Building Blocks includes a virtual machine that compiles the program at runtime to use the available architecture. That means [...]

  • A cat, a mouse and a game of poker

    Updated: 2010-09-22 11:21:15
    If you want to put your multithreading coding skills to the test, then phase two of Intel Threading Challenge 2010 might be the competition just for you.  There are two entry levels, apprentice and master, and not only do you get to pit your skills against others and stretch your knowledge you can also win [...]

  • IDF 2010: Core i7 thrashed in film processing contest

    Updated: 2010-09-15 00:32:32
    With eight processing threads and 8MB of Intel Smart Cache the Core i7 is hardly backwards in terms of processing horsepower. Watch it being thrashed in a media processing competition against Intel’s new second generation Core processor, part of Dadi Perlmutter’s day one keynote at IDF 2010. A high-def source file running at 30mb/s is processed by [...]

  • IDF2010: Lifting the lid on Parallel Building Blocks

    Updated: 2010-09-15 00:17:38
    Intel Fellow Geoff Lowney took to the stage at the Intel Developer Forum this afternoon to deliver an expert view on how Intel Parallel Studio helps to create parallel programs for Intel architecture. I blogged last week about the three parallel programming models that are included in the new Parallel Studio 2011, so I was [...]

  • IDF2010: Intel announces next generation multicore processor

    Updated: 2010-09-14 19:07:05
    Here at Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini used the opening keynote to announce that the company’s next generation chip is on track to begin shipping in “very high volume” early next year. Previously codenamed Sandy Bridge, the new chip will be marketed as the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family. Otellini said the [...]

  • IDF 2010: A parallel education

    Updated: 2010-09-13 22:32:19
    I wasn’t sure what to expect from a session entitled “Parallelism and Education: Navigating through a Sea of Cores” at the Intel Developer Forum 2010. While the study of parallel programming at colleges and universities is a perennial issue among academics and employers alike, a divergence of opinion on the topic between a group of [...]

  • Intel® Cilk™ Plus Intel® Software Network

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