Yesterday, you met Asaf Shelly here, an Intel Black Belt and parallel programming expert. Here’s the second part of my interview with him. If you want to meet him in person, make sure you book your place at Intel’s free networking event in London on 12th May. You can read the first part of this [...]You might remember that I went to the Intel Software Conference a couple of weeks ago in Dubrovnik, and blogged about Intel Cluster Studio, VTune Amplifier XE, and how Nik Software is using AVX among other subjects. While there, I took the opportunity to interview James Reinders, chief evangelist for Intel Software Tools, and put [...]
Asaf Shelly is a highly experienced parallel programmer, blogs on Intel.com and has been recognised in the online programming community with an Intel Black Belt. Appropriately enough, he’s working on three projects in parallel at the moment: supporting a USB device side engine for a medical company, writing a Windows NDIS network driver for a [...]You might have come across the Multicore Association (MCA) already, an open membership organisation that aims to create standards for various multicore challenges. The association has completed its Multicore Communication API (MCAPI) and Multicore Resource Management API (MRAPI) and has made them available for download. The MCAPI has been downloaded over 1300 times, so the [...]Next month, Intel will be hosting an exclusive networking event, where you’ll have a chance to meet leading Intel experts and to network with other developers. It takes place on 12th May in London, starting at 5pm with some short presentations before the informal networking with food and drinks provided. It’s the place to be [...]
Now I’m back in London, I’m catching up on my notes from last week’s ISTEP conference in Dubrovnik. The final session, led by Werner Krotz-Vogel, technical marketing engineer at Intel, concerned Intel Cluster Studio 2011, an integrated tool suite for MPI developers on high performance clusters. By 2018, Krotz-Vogel said, we can expect to see [...]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The Intel Threading Challenge is back so it’s time to dust off, brush up, sharpen, or just generally apply your coding skills to a series of challenging problems. Like last year, the Intel Threading Challenge 2011 is divided into two levels, Apprentice and Master. It’s up to you [...]Levent Akyil from Intel gave a talk at ISTEP today about how Intel VTune Amplifier XE was used to optimise the Total War game engine, created by The Creative Assembly. I find game development case studies particularly interesting because modern games are among the most demanding applications running on the typical PC today. Latency kills [...]One of my hobbies is photography, so I was particularly intrigued by Manuel Wille’s presentation at ISTEP 2011. He is the vice president of engineering for Nik Software, a company that makes software for photographers that plugs in to their Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop environment. In his talk, he showed the benefits of rewriting the [...]I thought I’d share an interesting slide on the adoption of multicore processors that formed part of a presentation given at the Intel Software Conference today. As soon as I have a higher resolution image I’ll replace the below, but you can still see here the shape of the mass market adoption, including a projection [...]