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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 …

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 …

Part of an ongoing series showing what parallel tools can do Let’s pick up three neat tools from the Intel parallel arsenal. The first is cilk_spawn, which spins up a new thread to do some work. The second, cilk::reducer_opadd, provides a safe way to signal other parts of an application. …

Intel is soliciting Windows workstation and server users to kick the tires on the beta-release of its Windows development environment for the 60-core Xeon Phi coprocessor. Buying a Xeon Phi co-processor card for your Xeon-based workstation or server gets you free access to all Intel’s parallel compilers, profilers, performance analyzers …

If you’ve ever heard about parallel programming it probably sounded like a painful endeavor. But why does parallelism hurt? And does it really have to? Those who have experience with parallel programming know it’s mostly true with “traditional” approaches that incorporate parallel constructs into mainstream programming languages like C++ or FORTRAN. …

  Here’s how it usually happens: Neural networks are trained, and an application uses them to make decisions. Unfortunately, this overlooks the real-life fact that circumstances change, invalidating network training. What makes the situation particularly serious is that retraining a network takes time and may not be practical for real-time …

  For the last eight years, the Programming Without Coding Technology project has been working on ways of developing, well, programming without coding. The initiative’s General-Purpose Visual Programming tool is aimed for clue-free newbies, expert developers and everyone in between. Interesting, but doubly so because of how the effort might …