Parallel Studio 2011 from Intel

Intel^® Parallel Studio serial and parallel software development suite enhances productivity and enables reliable applications that leverage legacy serial code, take advantage of multicore, and scale for manycore.

Delivering an array of innovative features and capabilities, Intel^® Parallel Studio equips developers to design, build and debug, verify, and tune their serial and parallel applications.

Intel Parallel Studio serial and parallel software development suite include:

Intel^® Parallel Advisor

Intel^® Parallel Composer

Intel^® Parallel Inspector

Intel^® Parallel Amplifier

• Enables developers to learn as they go, professional developers to more easily add threading, and advanced developers to work with greater efficiency

• Includes Intel^® Parallel Building Blocks, enabling developers to choose how to implement robust parallelism based on their needs

• Improves productivity to accelerate return on investments in hardware, software, and developer skills

• Supports multiple ways to exploit threading in the compiler and libraries

• Increases flexibility with both data and task parallel programming

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James Reinders introduces
Intel Parallel Studio

About Intel® Parallel Studio 2011 Service Pack 1 (SP1):
Intel® Parallel Studio 2011 SP1 provides the latest new features, performance, standards, and usability enhancements, plus fixes.

What's New Overview

• Intel® Parallel Composer 2011:
  • Enhanced performance - C/C++ compiler 12.1 is now up to 47% faster than the nearest competitor through memory, auto-parallelization, and vectorization optimizations
  • Standards - Intel® Parallel Composer C++ Compiler 12.1 IA support of IEEE 754-2008 standard for Binary and Decimal floating point
  • C++0x standards - support for Variadic templates enables variable number of arguments
  • Lambda support


• Intel® Threading Building Blocks 4.0:
  • Flow Graph - flexible API for expressing static and dynamic dependencies between computations
  • Concurrent Unordered Set - thread-safe container to store and access user objects
  • Memory Pools - flexibility and performance by getting thread-safe and scalable object allocation
  • Generic GCC* Atomics Support - library portability enables Intel® TBB-based solutions on a broader range of platforms
  • Arbitrary nesting - improved interoperability with Intel® PBB enables composability advantages for Intel® Cilk™ Plus users


• Intel® Cilk™ Plus:
  • Enhanced SIMD pragma support – improved scalability and performance with SIMD pragma loops, vector length, and elemental functions support
  • SIMD pragma clause - "vectorlengthfor" provides more architectural and scalable way to define vector lengths of loops
  • Holder Hyperobjects - saves time and improves performance by enabling per-thread temporary storage
  • Intel® Cilk™ Plus v1.1 implemented with commercial support, simplifies going parallel
  • Mac* OS support

Check out the live demo of how Intel^® Parallel Studio extends Visual Studio to give C++ developers the parallel tools needed to make their parallel applications reliable and fast.

Use Intel^® Parallel Inspector Memory and Thread Checker to find those difficult to find memory errors in your source code or even in binaries that cause crashes and hangs in your application.

Overview video highlighting the advantages of using Intel^® Parallel Amplifier in Microsoft Visual Studio* to tune threaded applications for best performance.

Here's why you'll want to use the Intel^® C++ Compiler - compatibility with Visual C++* and better performance!

This video explains the importance of creating parallel software to take advantage of the trend toward multi-core processors, explains some of the most common barriers programmers face in adopting parallelism, and introduces how Intel Parallel Advisor can overcome many of these hurdles.

Learn how to enable your Microsoft Visual Studio* projects to use Intel® Threading Building Blocks.