Parallel
Parallel Feature Articles
Scala for C# Developers: A Tutorial
If you work with C#, you have already mixed object-oriented code with some aspects of functional programming. Why not master Scala?
Exceeding Supercomputer Performance with Intel Phi
Using MPI on inexpensive clusters of Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors can produce results that exceed the performance of today's high-end supercomputers.
The Quiet Revolution in Programming
During the last two years, one of the longest eras in programming has quietly drawn to a close.
Numerical and Computational Optimization on the Intel Phi
How tuning functions for large data sets and profiling the results gets most of the benefits of the Phi's 60 cores without hand wringing and late-night hacking.
Getting to 1 Teraflop on the Intel Phi Coprocessor
The key to truly high performance with the Phi coprocessor is to express sufficient parallelism and vector capability to fully utilize the device. Here is a timing framework that enables you to measure and optimize performance and push it past 1 teraflop.
Parallel News
Assassin's Creed 3 Is Agile On Perforce
Swarm is new peer review software for distributed Agile teams
Heavy Refactoring In Parallel? No Problem
Language-aware, three-way source code merging tool free for open source projects
Intel's Silvermont Microarchitecture
Silvermont features new multicore and system fabric architecture scalable up to eight cores, enabling greater performance for higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient out-of-order support for a better balanced and responsive system.
Perceptual Computing
Using the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK 2013, developers can create applications that take advantage of the SDK’s core capabilities for handling close-range hand and finger tracking, speech recognition, face analysis, and augmented reality.
Symphony In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Minor
Low-key release features identity management tools
Otellini to Retire
Intel Corporation announced that the company's president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as of May 2013.
Allinea Tools Up For Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Developer tools for highly parallel workloads
Parallel Debugging A Swedish Supercomputer
National strategic HPC network in Scandinavia implements Allinea Software
Parallel Gets Simpler, Faster, With Nvidia CUDA 5
Pervasive parallel programming platform pushes productivity
New Parallel and Cluster Studio XE Developer Suites From Intel
Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 Software Development Suites
Events of Interest
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Ocotber 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference
October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
