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Embedded, Parallel Worlds Converging

Posted on May 20, 2013 by R. Colin Johnson, Slashdot Media Contributing Editor

Embedded developers are starting to reap benefits from parallel processing, as so-called intelligent systems gain in popularity and manageability. “Some of the tools we’ve been providing on larger systems are now finding themselves really useful in the embedded world,” explains Herb Hinstorff, Director of Marketing and Sales, Software Developer Products …

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HPC Drives Life Science Research at Texas Supercomputing Center

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Joe Maglitta, Editor, Go Parallel

Life science accounts for a key segment of the 3,000 research scientists in astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering, petroleum engineering and geosciences using the Stampede supercomputer system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas, Austin. “Oscar” Jiao, the center’s life science computing specialist, recently …

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Improving Your Coding AND Professional Craft

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Joe Maglitta, Editor, Intel Go Parallel

  Becoming a better parallel coder can also make you smarter in your professional field, according to Michael D’Mello, Program Manager, Tools Immersion Program at Intel. Increasing mastery of programming tools not only ups your development game, but over time can become “an integral part of your workflow and thought …

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Meeting New Challenges of Scaling Parallelism Across and Within Cores

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Joe Maglitta, Editor, Intel® Go Parallel

  With today’s powerful new multi-core processors, if you’re not vectorizing – breaking data into chunks – you risk leaving 8x or 16X of Intel Xeon Phi’s theoretical peak power on the table and not scaling code efficiently. The solution, according to Intel’s Ron Green, is for programmers to start …

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Parallel Platform Report: Believe it – Affordable HPC is Here

Posted on April 11, 2013 by R. Colin Johnson, Slashdot Media Contributing Editor

Until now, Go Parallel Hardware Correspondent R. Colin Johnson wondered if high-performance computing (HPC) was just overhyped rebranding of supercomputing. But after going deep with Gartner and IDC analysts and seeing small and medium businesses economically turn x86 servers into HPCs to analyze everything from stocks to pizza sauces, this …

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Xeon Phi Powers HPC Stampede

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Intel®

The “Stampede” supercomputer system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center is the first very large-scale implementation of Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessor. The systems brings 9 petaflops of performance to scientists in field ranging from astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering, petroleum engineering and geosciences to make pursuing discoveries in their …

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Four Trends Driving Parallel Popularity

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Joe Maglitta, Senior Director Strategic Content, Slashdot Media

  In a few short years, adoption of parallel programming has grown widely.  Intel’s top Parallel Evangelist James Reinders discusses the four trends driving developer interest.  (15:44)  1. Better tools for parallel programming 2. Better programming models for SW programmers 3. Wildly more parallelism on HW 4. Understanding how to …

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Ask James Reinders: “Do I Really Need to Learn About TBB’s to Program in Parallel?”

Posted on March 20, 2013 by James Reinders, Director of Parallel Programming Evangelism, Intel®

In this new series tackling questions from the Go Parallel community, Intel’s Chief Evangelist James Reinders says you don’t have to learn about Threaded Building Blocks, but there are no free passes. Got a question for James? Email jmaglitta@slashdotmedia.com For more information on the Threaded Building Blocks click here.  

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How Developers Can Handle the New Hardware Complexity

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Gary Carleton, Intel® Senior Engineer & Joe Maglitta, Go Parallel Editor

More processors, more cores, more threads, wider registers. The latest generation of new processors introduces new complexity. Today’s “hardware explosion” requires a new way of thinking about architecting, building and tuning parallel programs to take advantage of powerful new capabilities. Join Intel Senior Engineer Gary Carleton and Go Parallel Editor …

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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

Posted on February 28, 2013 by James Reinders
, Director and Parallel Programming Evangelist and
 Senior Engineer, Intel®

  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 …

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