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- Intel Rules Supercomputer SpeedfestIntel powered four of every five screamingly fast winners in the twice-annual Top500.org ranking at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC 2013,...
- Cray Brings Intel Hadoop Distro to CS300 SupercomputerCray is adding Intel’s flavor of Hadoop to its CS300 supercomputers. Does this mark the beginning of a new era? And what does...
- Case Study: RADVISION Boosts IP Apps for Multicore PlatformsRADVISION offers the broadest and most complete set of standards-based video networking infrastructure and developer toolkits available. But the company was...
- Octal Xeon Phi Server Hits 8-teraFLOPSWith the Xeon Phi poised to win the “world’s fastest supercomputer” crown next week coprocessors in general, and Intel’s...
- Open CASCADE Doubles PerformanceOpen CASCADE found it challenging to maximize performance in complex software simulations for its clients while eliminating errors and bottlenecks. ...
- Parallel HPC Reaches for the StarsHigh-performance parallel computing is taking off – literally. NASA and the U.S. Air Force have begun development of the Next Generation...
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Intel Rules Supercomputer Speedfest
Intel powered four of every five screamingly fast winners in the twice-annual Top500.org ranking at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC 2013, June 16-20, Leipzig Germany). The many-integrated core (MIC) architecture using Xeon Phi coprocessors powered the world’s fastest supercomputer–the MilkyWay-2 in China–clocking in at over 50 petaFLOPS (million-billion floating-point operations …
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Cray Brings Intel Hadoop Distro to CS300 Supercomputer
Cray is adding Intel’s flavor of Hadoop to its CS300 supercomputers. Does this mark the beginning of a new era? And what does it mean for supercomputer software development? Cray is bundling Intel’s particular version of Apache Hadoop with its CS300 supercomputers. Apache Hadoop has become a popular developer language and platform for those …
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String Functions: Primitive Excitement Beyond the C!
I have avoided talking about the Intel Performance Primitives (IPP) string functions for months now. After all, how exciting can string functions be? Unfortunately, they sometimes are more “exciting” than one would like. How many times have you had to roll your own custom functions in a pinch. Let’s face …
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Breaking Barriers in Virtual Crash Simulation
Altair Engineering Inc. is at the leading edge of research into deadly, head-on auto collisions. The company wanted to gain competitive advantage by reducing prototyping costs and time to market for RADIOSS, a next-generation finite element analysis solver for linear and non-liner simulations. A hybrid programming mix of different parallelization …
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Analyst: Intel Processors Outperform ARM
Intel’s parallel applications processors for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices outperform those licensed from ARM Holdings by Nvidia, Qualcomm and Samsung, according to Allied Business Intelligence, Inc. (ABI Research, Austin, Texas). On its device teardown site ABI Research recently compared dual- and quad-core parallel application processors for smartphones and …
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Case Study: RADVISION Boosts IP Apps for Multicore Platforms
RADVISION offers the broadest and most complete set of standards-based video networking infrastructure and developer toolkits available. But the company was challenged with scaling up performance. It needed the SIP Toolkit to run on platforms containing multiple cores that can carry a high load. The company’s products enable customers …
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Converting A Serial Quicksort Algorithm Into Parallel
Intel’s parallel programming gurus have written a book that teaches parallel programming. including sample code. Jeff Cogswell explores the techniques needed to convert a serial algorithm into a parallel. Three of Intel’s parallel programming gurus, Michael McCool, Arch Robison and James Reinders have written an excellent book called “Structured Parallel …
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Octal Xeon Phi Server Hits 8-teraFLOPS
With the Xeon Phi poised to win the “world’s fastest supercomputer” crown next week [June 18] coprocessors in general, and Intel’s many-integrated core (MIC) technology in particular, will get a boost in credibility. Old-school high-performance computers (HPCs) lashed together the fastest multi-core processors available, but the new approach instead uses …
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- A Guide to Vectorization with Intel® C++ Compilers
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- Resolve Resource Leaks
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- Speed Agile QA Testing- Intel® Inspector XE 2013
- The Parallel Universe — Issue 13 — February 2013
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- Using the new concurrent priority queue in Intel® Threading Building Blocks
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- Intel Parallel Processors Span Gamut
- Tutorial: Pointer Checker – Catch Out-of-Bounds Memory Accesses
- Tutorial: Understanding Intel’s New Processors and Tools
- An Introduction to Vectorization with the Intel® C++ Compiler
- An Introduction to Vectorization with the Intel® Fortran Compiler
- How to manage the analysis overhead of Correctness Modeling in Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011
- Using Intel® TBB in network applications: Network Router emulator
- Intel® C++ Composer XE 2011 Getting Started Tutorials
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