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Atom “Clover Trail” Tailored for Windows 8

Posted on November 29, 2012 by R. Colin Johnson, Geeknet Contributing Editor

  Intel’s Atom “Clover Trail” processor (Z2760) is custom-tailored for Window 8 to provide drastically extended battery lifetime of mobile devices and tablets, according to Technology Showcase presenters at the recent MEMS Executive Congress. “The Atom Z2760, code-named Clover Trail, was architected from the ground up for Windows 8,” explains …

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Hawking’s ‘Big Brain’ Powered by Intel MIC

Posted on November 29, 2012 by R. Colin Johnson, Geeknet Contributing Editor

  The world’s first symmetric multi-processor (SMP) to be powered by Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture is also the latest incarnation of Stephen Hawking’s pioneering Cosmos supercomputer for the Miracle Consortia. Cosmos makes use of SGI’s “Big Brain”–the SGI UV 2000–which houses 32 Xeon Phi co-processors utilizing a total …

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Ask James Reinders: The Push/Pull of Hardware and Software Evolution

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jeff Cogswell and John Jainschigg, Geeknet Contributing Editors

  Leading edge insight, views and explanation from James Reinders, Director, Software Evangelist, Intel Corporation. Conducted by Geeknet Contributing Editors Jeff Cogswell and John Jainschigg. Geeknet:  I was reading through some recent presentations of yours – in particular the presentation you did for the Texas Advanced Computing Center, back in …

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Intel FFT Paper Wins Award at SC12

Posted on November 26, 2012 by John Jainschigg, Geeknet Contributing Editor

  SC12, supercomputing.org’s U.S. conference, held recently in Salt Lake City, UT, drew some of the best and brightest in scientific, engineering and enterprise supercomputing and HPC together to share ideas, view new tech and solutions, and (gently) compete for the benefit of science and the industry. On Nov.15,  Intel  …

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Performance Tuning with VTune Amplifier XE

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Gary Carleton, Intel Senior Staff Software Engineer

  Intel’s Senior Staff Software Engineer Gary Carleton tells how you can identify and eliminate bottlenecks in mixed or single language applications. Learn how Intel’s VTune Amplifier XE helps analyze CPU usage and other metrics and much more. For an example and deeper dive on how you can tune applications, …

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Xeon Phi Wins Top 10 Supercomputer Slot

Posted on November 13, 2012 by R. Colin Johnson, Geeknet Contributing Editor

  Intel’s massively parallel Xeon Phi coprocessor powered a Top 10 Supercomputer on the 20th anniversary of the Top500 Supercomputer List. At 2.6-petaFLOPS, Stampede ranked seventh out of 500 supercomputers, one of only 23 petaflop-caliber systems on this year’s list. Located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University …

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SSDs: Keys to Multicore Speed

Posted on November 13, 2012 by John Jainschigg, Geeknet Contributing Editor

  A few weeks back we spoke with Intel’s Walter Shands on using Intel VTune Amplifier 2013 to optimize HMMER, a molecular biology package, written in Fortran. The main point outlined in Shand’s Intel webinar October 16:  VTune Amplifier can significantly improve multicore performance of algorithmically complex, purpose-specific code while …

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Maximum Performance, Minimum Effort: Optimizing Legacy Code for the Latest Intel® Architectures

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Joseph Maglitta, Senior Director Strategic Content, Geeknet Media

  How do you most effectively unlock the power of more cores and wider vectors?   Noah Clemons, Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel Corp. and Edward Nugent, Research Intern, Naval Postgraduate School sit down with Geeknet Senior Content Director Joe Maglitta and explain how, along with the key role of  Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 and …

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Creating Starter and Continuing Graph Nodes with Threading Building Blocks

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Jeff Cogswell, Geeknet Contributing Editor

Last week we talked about the general concepts behind the graph mechanism in Threading Building Blocks (TBB).    This week I want to show you some code. We’ll spend the next couple of weeks working on this, because there’s more than we can fit into a single blog. Let’s start with …

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Parallel Programing: Goals, Skills, Platforms, Markets, Languages

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Geeknet Media

How are software developers and their organizations adapting to new parallel computing architectures? How broad is the market for parallelism, software acceleration and optimization? What platforms are organizations deploying products on, and for what languages do developers need parallel programming support? Read this informative research report today and find out …

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