Dr. Dobb's Blogs

Introducing Embree

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:57:00 -0400

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 09:59:00 -0400

Optimized performance for Intel architecture processors

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:57:00 -0400

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

High-Level Programming Languages Should Improve Support for SIMD Instructions

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:19:00 -0400

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

Alice 3: Visualize Concurrent Code in Action

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:49:00 -0400

A new version of this innovative 3D programming environment makes it easy to understand the importance of concurrency

Parallel Worker 0.2.0

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:14:00 -0400

A jQuery plugin that takes advantage of HTML 5 Web Workers

New Intel Turbo Boost Technology

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:47:00 -0400

Monitor version brings Turbo Boost 2.0 compatibility

iPad 2 Brings iOS Developers to Multicore Programming Land

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:57:00 -0400

The recently launched iPad 2 includes a 1 GHz dual-core Apple A5 System-on-a-Chip -- If you want your iOS apps to take full advantage of this powerful dual-core chip, you have to use multicore programming techniques in these apps

High Performance C++ Code in Windows Azure Roles

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:07:00 -0500

The newest Windows Azure versions allow you to make P/Invoke calls to invoke native code

MeeGo's Multicore Optimization Options

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:43:32 -0500

Now that many MeeGo tablets, netbooks, and other handheld devices feature dual-core Intel Atom microprocessors with Intel Hyper-Threading technology, you shouldn't lose the chance to optimize your app...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Bring AVX Support

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:32:55 -0500

The second generation Intel Core processor family codename Sandy Bridge introduced Intel Advanced Vector Extensions, known as Intel AVX. Intel AVX is a 256 bit instruction set extension to Intel SSE t...

ProcDump v3.02: A Simple Utility that Detects CPU Spikes in Windows

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:55:15 -0500

ProcDump is a very simple yet powerful command-line utility that monitors an application in Windows and writes a process dump file during a spike. You can use ProcDump to detect applications that bloc...

Multicore Programming Possibilities with Windows Azure SDK 1.3

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:25:41 -0500

You can use your parallelized algorithms that exploit modern multicore microprocessors in Windows Azure. Since the release of Microsoft Azure SDK v1.2, you can use .NET Framework 4 as the target frame...

Microsoft Launches Parallel Computing Virtual Labs with Visual Studio 2010 Premium

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:50:09 -0500

If you want to work with parallelized code that targets multicore CPUs with .NET Framework 4, you need Visual Studio 2010 installed on a computer with at least three physical cores. A dual-core CPU is...

Sony Puts a Quad-Core CPU in the Gamers' Pockets with the NGP

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:11:06 -0500

Sony unveiled the detailed specifications for the PlayStation Portable successor with impressive hardware. Sony's Next Generation Portable, known as NGP, features a quad-core Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta 1, ...

GPars 0.11 Adds Dataflow Concurrency to Groovy and Java

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:50:04 -0500

GPars 0.11 adds dataflow concurrency to its existing intuitive ways to handle tasks, actors and messages in Groovy. In addition, this new release improves performance for actors and provides a Java API.

Visualizing Context Switches that Cross Cores with Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:27:19 -0500

Context switches that cross from one logical core to another can reduce the performance of your application. Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate versions allow you to visualize this problem on W...

Python 3.2 Beta 1 Introduces New Concurrency Features

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:14:05 -0500

Python 3.2 Beta 1 adds a futures library for concurrent programming that is part of a new concurrent top-level package. The main goal is to simplify the parallelizati...

Silverlight 4 Makes it Easy to Count Logical Cores

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:10:31 -0500

Silverlight 4 allows you to access the System.Environment.ProcessorCount property to get the number of logical cores, also known as hardware threads, on the current machine. In pre...

The Visual Studio Code Snippets Project Adds Parallel Programming Snippets

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:38:47 -0500

The November 2010 Release of the StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio Code Snippets open source project adds many parallel programming code...

Dive Deeper than the CPU Utilization Graph to Check Efficiency

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:09:11 -0500

The CPU utilization graph provides important information that allows you to detect a load imbalance problem when parallelized code runs on a multicore CPU. However, a sustained high CPU load for all t...

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Async CTP

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:31:36 -0400

Anders Hejlsberg described the roadmap for C# and Visual Basic at PDC 2010. The main goal of the next versions of both C# and Visual Basic is to make asynchronous programming as simple as synchronous programming.