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Issue 8
COVER STORY
HPC Study: Biophysicists and Mathematicians Embrace Parallelism with Intel® Parallel Advisor, by Zakhar A. Matveev
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor Parallelism Programming: Who Signed Me Up for Writing a Book?, by James Reinders
- The Intel® Threading Building Blocks Flow Graph, BY MICHAEL J. VOSS, PH.D by Michael J. Voss
- Intel® Parallel Studio XE SP1, by Michael D'Mello
Issue 7
COVER STORY
Intel® Cilk™ Plus: A C/C++ Language Extension for Parallel Programming, by Robert Geva
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the editor specifics: FLOP Count and Parallel Programming, by James Reinders
- Three Flavors of 'for' Loops with Intel® Parallel Building Blocks (Intel® PBB), by Noah Clemons
- Easing the Performance Analysis of Serial and Parallel Applications, by Levent Akyil
- Case Study: Massachusetts General Hospital*, by Bevin Brett
Issue 6
COVER STORY
Parallelizing Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Functions Using Intel® Cilk™ Plus and Intel® Threading Building Blocks, by Walter Shands
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor: PBB, XE, Cambrian Explosion and the Art of Computer Programming, by James Reinders
- Intel® Array Building Blocks Code Tips, by Zhang Zhang
- Success Story Roundup
- TBB 3.0 and Processor Affinity, by Andrey Marochko
- Using the Intel® Threading Building Blocks Graph Community Preview Feature: An Implementation of Dining Philosophers, by Michael Voss
Issue 5
COVER STORY
Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Intel® Cluster Studio Tool Suites, by Sanjay Goil and John McHugh
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor: High Performance Options Have Never Been Greater, by James Reinders
- Intel® Parallel Building Blocks: The Answer to Cracking the Parallelism Puzzle, by David Sekowski
- Intel® Array Building Blocks,
by Michael McCool - Automatic Parallelism with the Intel® Math Kernel Library, by Greg Henry and Shane Story
- When Print Statements and Timer Are Not Enough: Making the Parallelism Investment More Effective, by Don Gunning, Nick Meng, and Paul Besl
- Intel® Cilk™ Plus Specification and Runtime ABI Published for Free Download Now, by James Reinders
- Condition Variable Support in Intel® Threading Building Blocks, by Wooyoung Kim
Issue 4
COVER STORY
Intel® Parallel Studio 2011: Getting Your App Ready for Multicore Just Got Easier, by Leila Chucri
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor: Breaking Ground and Building Trust, by James Reinders
- Intel® Parallel Advisor: Using Serial Modeling Tools to Tame the Parallel Beast, by John Pieper
- The World's First Sudoku 'Thirty-Niner,'
by Stephen Blair-Chappell - Intel® Cilk Plus, by Krishna Ramkumar
- Nine Tips to Parallel Programming Heaven, by Stephen Blair-Chappell
- Which Comes First: Parallel Languages or Parallel Programming Patterns? by Clay Breshears
Issue 3
COVER STORY
Enhancing Productivity and Achieving High Perfomance with Intel® Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition, by Bill Magro
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor: Parallelism Full Steam Ahead!, by James Reinders
- Increase Productivity and Performance: Find out What IncrediBuild* and Intel® Parallel Composer Can Offer, by Jennifer Jiang and Uri Mishol
- Optimizations for MSC. Software SimX-pert* Using Intel® Threading Building Blocks, by Kathy Carver, Mark Lubin, and Bonnie Aona
- Testing Scalability in Four Easy Steps, by Stephen Blair-Chappell
Issue 2
COVER STORY
Where Are My Threads? Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Finding Threading and Parallelism Issues, by Levent Akyil
Also in this issue:
- Letter from the Editor: Think Parallel: Good Programming Starts with the Developer, by James Reinders
- Advisor Origins, Part 1, by Paul Petersen
- Understanding the Features of Intel® Parallel Inspector by Example, by Bradley J. Werth
- Thread Your C# Code with Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives, by Naveen Gv
Issue 1
In this issue:
- Think Parallel or Perish, by James Reinders
- Parallelisation Methodology
- Writing Parallel Code Safely, by Peter Varhol
- Are You Ready to Enter a Parallel Universe: Optimising Applications for Multicore, by Levent Akyil
- 8 Rules for Parallel Programming for Multicore, by James Reinders
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