• A great online Flash game for programmers

    Updated: 2010-12-20 14:42:29
    I’m going to be taking a break on the blog for Christmas and will be back in the new year, when I plan to keep you updated once more on what’s going on in parallel programming. If you want to know when I’m back, you can follow me on Twitter, or subscribe to my RSS [...]

  • Concurrency snakes into Python with new futures library

    Updated: 2010-12-20 14:10:15
    A new blog post by Gaston Hillar at Dr Dobb’s Go Parallel has drawn my attention to the work going on in the Python programming community to make it easier to code concurrent applications using that language. Python’s philosophy is one of ‘batteries included’, which means the language is supplied with the extensive libraries required [...]

  • Prising open the door of your bank – legally

    Updated: 2010-12-20 09:55:21
     Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Minister, whose name recently came to national prominence for a slip of the tongue by a Radio 4 presenter, is championing the rights of developers. He has made clear that the creative industries are central to the wellbeing of the UK economy. And that includes computer games development. This came [...]

  • Video interview: What is Intel doing to help students learn parallel programming?

    Updated: 2010-12-16 15:21:59
    In my final IDF video for this year, Jennifer Levine talks about the work Intel is doing to bring parallel programming to undergraduates, by providing course materials and other support to teaching institutions worldwide. She also mentions the Manycore Testing Lab, a 32-core testing facility available to academics, which I covered previously. Click the button [...]

  • Video interview: What is the Manycore Testing Lab?

    Updated: 2010-12-16 15:15:07
    I’m catching up on quite a few IDF videos this week, as you have probably noticed! Anyway, one of the great things about IDF is that it gives you a chance to see some of the demonstrations that you would normally only read about online. I had a chat with Clay Breshears from Intel who [...]

  • Video interview: What is the Intel Black Belt programme?

    Updated: 2010-12-16 14:45:26
    At Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in the summer, I met Jim Dempsey, who was one of the first people to be recognised for his contributions on Intel Software Network with black belt status. I had a chat with him about what the black belt programme is all about and how he benefits from it, including [...]

  • A practical guide to Intel Concurrent Collections for C++

    Updated: 2010-12-16 10:02:16
    A new 35-page tutorial has been published which gives some insight into the thinking behind Intel Concurrent Collections, and the process of using it for parallel programming. The tutorial shows the workflow for creating a Fibonacci sequence generator in C++. As you might remember, Intel Concurrent Collections is also available for Haskell, and the tutorial [...]

  • James Reinders speaks about Parallel Studio 2011

    Updated: 2010-12-15 17:08:02
    Here’s an exclusive video interview with James Reinders of Intel,  filmed at IDF, talking about Intel Parallel Studio 2011. He discusses the new tools and programming models in Parallel Studio 2011, and talks about how technology from Cilk+ and RapidMind has been integrated in this new release. Watch this five-minute film to get up to [...]

  • Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2010 service pack

    Updated: 2010-12-08 13:45:15
    Microsoft has released a beta version of service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010. It offers an enhanced help viewer, Silverlight 4 support, and enhanced support for various Windows 7 APIs. There is also a new compiler runtime switch, which will enable Visual Basic developers to target their apps and libraries at platforms where the [...]

  • “Only idiots write parallel programs with proprietary APIs”

    Updated: 2010-12-08 11:15:36
    In an interview with HPC Wire, Tim Mattson from Intel has said that only an idiot would write parallel code using a proprietary API. His stance is sure to put him at loggerheads with Intel colleagues, who are working on some of the proprietary APIs that Mattson dismisses. To provide some context, Mattson was talking [...]

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