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Four Reasons Why the Importance of Parallel Programming is Rising: Intel’s James Reinders previews keynote at the 2013 Intel Software Conference Road Show
Better tools, better programming models, significantly more hardware parallelism, and better-educated programmers are ushering in a new era of parallelism. Learn how these trends can help you better unleash unprecedented parallelism in a captivating keynote by Intel Evangelist James Reinders at the upcoming Intel Software Conference road show. James …
Intel’s New Apache Hadoop Distribution Boosts Speed, Encryption by Leveraging Deep Hardware Integration
It’s no secret that Apache Hadoop has caught on in a big way among companies large and small. The open-source framework specializes in running data applications on large hardware clusters, making it a particular favorite among firms such as Facebook and IBM with a lot of backend infrastructure (and a …
How To Improve Crowd Simulation for Video Game Developers
Crowd simulation is one of the most challenging tasks in computer animation. Thankfully, there are number of new technologies that can help. Golaem, a software company focused on bringing life to digital worlds, has developed a set of tools designed to help game developers and others offer better, faster crowd simulations. Learn how the Intel® …
USC Students Use Intel® Game Development Tools to Increase Game Performance
Students at the University of Southern California’s GamePipe Laboratory built a custom game engine using Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) and Intel® Parallel Studio XE suite of tools. Learn more about how these Intel tools helped them build this impressive piece of software. Using Intel GPA and Intel Parallel Studio XE, these students were …
Independent Test: Xeon Phi Shocks Tesla GPU
Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessor outperforms Nvidia’s Tesla graphic-processing unit (GPU) on the operations used by “solver” applications in science and engineering, according to independent tests at Ohio State University. When comparing Intel’s Xeon Phi to Nvidia’s Tesla, most reviewers dwell on how much easier it is to rewrite parallel programs …
A Concise Guide to Parallel Programming Tools for Intel® Xeon® Processors
How do you pick the right programming models and tools that boost application performance? As microprocessors transition from clock speed as the primary vehicle for performance gains to features such as multiple cores, wider vectors and increasing vector instruction sets, it’s increasingly important for software developers to optimize their applications …
Fujitsu Boosts HPC with Xeon Phi
The fifth ranked server manufacturer worldwide–Fujitsu Ltd.–has begun refocusing its high-performance computing (HPC) aspirations on the Xeon Phi coprocessor. Now available for its popular Primergy servers, Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessor is changing the rules of the game for HPC, according to a Fujitsu, which claims that old-school HPCs with thousands …
Picking Profitable Parallel Projects
Suitability analysis gives you a performance estimate before you invest significant effort in parallel implementation, so you pursue options with high return on investment (ROI). Here are the key steps: Survey – Search for Parallel Sites: Start by measuring you app to see where it will benefit from parallelism. There is …
Gesture Camera Makes Perceptual Computing a Snap
Been itching to get your hands into gesture-based computing? A key piece of the equation is now available. Intel recently announced public availability of its new The Creative* Interactive Gesture Camera Developer Kit. The $149 camera is a small, light-weight, USB-powered device optimized for close-range interactivity. Designed for ease of …
Tutorial: Intel Parallel Processors Span Gamut
Performance increases in next-generation microprocessors no longer rely on cranking clock speeds–except during Turbo Boost. Instead, speed-ups today come from parallel programming harnessing multi-core hyper-threaded processors, spanning everything from tiny mobiles to massive supercomputers. In fact, all modern Intel central processing units (CPUs) are parallel processors–from the tiny Atom to …