Articles

• Optimizing Algorithms Versus GPU Programming, Which Is Best?

  Adrian Bridgwater March 07, 2012

  New HPC compilers and development tools with support for OpenACC GPU directives and native CUDA C/C++ optimized for multi-core x86

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• How Do Applications Run on a New Micro-Architecture? Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 Answers the Question

  Gaston Hillar March 02, 2012

  The Profile System target type provided by Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 allows you to analyze the system performance as a whole and provides you with all the information you might need in order to optimize the applications for your new target micro-architecture.

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• OpenCL Compiler Ships
 for Multi-Core ARM

  Adrian Bridgwater March 01, 2012

  PGI OpenCL framework targets ST-Ericsson NovaThor mobile platform

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• Getting the Straight Dope on Instruction-Level Optimization

  Andrew Binstock February 29, 2012

  It's not easy to find all the help you need to drop to assembly language optimization or use the latest vector-based instruction extensions, but these resources will help immeasurably.

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• Electric Cloud Shows Developer Love on Valentine's Day

  Adrian Bridgwater February 14, 2012

  Solution for accelerated developer builds with options for both "aggressive and reliable" parallelization

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• Cpuinfo: The Processor Information Utility for Intel MPI Library

  Gaston Hillar February 14, 2012

  The cpuinfo command-line utility included in the Intel MPI Library is the most convenient tool to gather detailed information about your cluster nodes, their logical processors identifications, the placement on packages, their different cache levels sharing, their feature flags, etc.

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• Transactional Synchronization in Haswell

  James Reinders February 09, 2012

  Intel TSX provides a set of instruction-set extensions that allow programmers to specify regions of code for transactional synchronization

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• Microsoft Opens C++ Extension To Other Compilers

  Adrian Bridgwater February 08, 2012

  Visual Studio 11 developers offered route to more GPU power

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• Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Applications: Optimize Up To the Node Level

  Gaston Hillar February 01, 2012

  Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 provides an MPI hybrid development suite that targets developers on high-performance clusters.

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• Massively Parallel Automated Debugging On IBM Blue Gene

  Adrian Bridgwater February 01, 2012

  Rogue Wave delivers early access version of TotalView

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• QLogic and Intel to Combine Efforts on HPC

  Dr. Dobb's Journal January 27, 2012

  Acquisition designed to enhance Intel's networking portfolio and provide scalable high-performance computing (HPC) fabric technology

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• The CoreInfo 3.03 Utility Provides Detailed Intel Instruction Sets

  Gaston Hillar January 20, 2012

  The newest version of CoreInfo provides a detailed summary of all the instructions sets that the CPUs found on the system support.

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• Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization

  Pete Dice January 17, 2012

  Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded.

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• Joe Everton on GPA 4.3

  Dr. Dobb's Journal January 05, 2012
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• Tools For Building To Multicore Stacks

  Adrian Bridgwater January 04, 2012

  PolyCore and Express Logic lineup for new engineering tools

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• Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I: Early Initialization

  Pete Dice December 26, 2011

  The boot sequence today is far more complex than it was even a decade ago. Here's a detailed, low-level, step-by-step walkthrough of the boot up.

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• Boost Performance for Your Android Native Code

  Gaston Hillar December 21, 2011

  The Android NDK is a toolset that lets you embed components that make use of native code in your Android applications.

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• Calling IPP Functions from C# Code

  Gaston Hillar December 14, 2011

  Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, also known as IPP, is a library of highly optimized math software functions for digital media and data-processing applications.

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• Three Parallel Backtracking Designs

  Clay Breshears December 09, 2011

  Clay presents three design versions of the parallel NQueens() function.

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• Retrieving Detailed Information About Your Intel Multicore CPU Features with Intel IPP

  Gaston Hillar December 06, 2011

  There are several ways of retrieving detailed information about your Intel multicore CPU features. I discovered two functions in IPP that provide most of the information I usually need.

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• Implicit CPU Vectorization with Intel OpenCL SDK 1.5

  Gaston Hillar November 22, 2011

  Intel OpenCL SDK 1.5 includes important performance enhancements specifically designed for the latest Intel 2^nd Generation Core Processors and outlines a path for future performance improvements.

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• Backtracking for Fun and Profit

  Clay Breshears November 22, 2011

  Backtracking can be used to find all (or some) solutions to problems that are able to incrementally build candidates to solutions.

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• Intel Vector Statistical Library

  Gaston Hillar November 18, 2011

  Boost performance of pseudo-random and quasi-random number generation

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• How Data Dependence Affects Performance

  Aart Bik November 14, 2011

  Data dependence between statements is a straightjacket on the compiler's ability to optimize code for parallelism. So to get the maximum benefit from parallel code, data dependence must be carefully managed

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• Intel Cluster Studio XE Development Suite Announced

  Adrian Bridgwater November 09, 2011

  A strategic move towards forward scaling for HPC cluster compute environments

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