Dr. Dobb's Go Parallel Blogs

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

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:37 EST

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.

Getting the Straight Dope on Instruction-Level Optimization

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:00 EST

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.

Cpuinfo: The Processor Information Utility for Intel MPI Library

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:46 EST

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.

Transactional Synchronization in Haswell

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:43 EST

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

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

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:55 EST

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

The CoreInfo 3.03 Utility Provides Detailed Intel Instruction Sets

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:05 EST

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

Boost Performance for Your Android Native Code

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:26 EST

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

Calling IPP Functions from C# Code

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:26 EST

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

Three Parallel Backtracking Designs

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:41 EST

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

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

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:26 EST

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.

Implicit CPU Vectorization with Intel OpenCL SDK 1.5

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:15 EST

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.

Backtracking for Fun and Profit

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:21 EST

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

Intel Vector Statistical Library

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:24 EST

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

Rise of the Planet of the Iterative Quicksort

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:19 EDT

In the third and final part of the Iterative Quicksort trilogy, anything can happen and anyone can die.

Introducing Intel Labs' River Trail

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:00 EDT

Getting parallelized functions to work with arrays in JavaScript

Parallel Data Structures

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:12 EDT

Fantasy or (yet-to-be-discovered) reality?

Parallelism As a First Class Citizen in C and C++

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:57 EDT

We need mechanisms for parallelism that have strong space-time guarantees, simple program understanding, and serialization semantics — all things we do not have in C and C++ today

Intel Vector Math Library

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:13 EDT

A simpler way to take advantage of SIMD instructions

Memory Constraints on Thread Performance

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:08 EDT

Threading is no guarantee of improved performance if memory issues are not attended to

Introducing Embree

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:57 EDT

Open source photo-realistic ray tracing kernels that take full advantage of SSE and AVX on the CPU

Intel OpenCL SDK 1.1

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:59 EDT

Optimized performance for Intel architecture processors

Intel AVX2 Will Bring Integer Instructions with 256-bit SIMD Numeric Processing Capabilities

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:57 EDT

The forthcoming microarchitecture, codenamed "Haswell," will introduce Intel AVX2 in 2013

I'll have An ISO C++ (New Standard Compliant) Compiler with my SPARC T4, Please!

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:57 EDT

"Oracle's Five Year Plan for the SPARC T-Series" sparks a sigh of relief

Testing and Logical Fault Tolerance for Parallel Programs

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:33 EDT

Regardless of how the list of requirements for a piece of software is generated, the testing process must make sure that the software meets those requirements and that the requirements meet the user's expectations

High-Level Programming Languages Should Improve Support for SIMD Instructions

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:19 EDT

Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power