Intel® Parallel Studio
Envivio: "Intel® Parallel Studio makes the new Envivio 4Caster Series Transcoder’s development faster and more efficient. Intel Parallel Studio globally speeds up our software products’ time-to-market."
Eric Rosier
V.P. Engineering
Envivio
Laplink Software: "We expect significant speed improvements in our products that use our SpeedSync file synchronization library using Intel’s Parallel Studio. It will enable us to do our initial calculations on blocks within a file in parallel with minimal changes to our existing code. It looks like it can easily pay for itself in reduced development time and increased quality."
Orin Eman
Principal Engineer
Laplink Software
Trading Systems Lab: "Here at Trading Systems Lab, we got a 10% to 20% performance boost in the multimode trading simulator that’s used in our TSL Algo Auto-Design Platform by using the C++ compiler in Intel Parallel Studio. The compatibility with Microsoft Visual C++* is great, and we’re looking forward to using more parallelism features in Parallel Studio."
Mike Barna
President
Trading Systems Lab
OpenCascade S.A.S.: "Intel® Parallel Inspector and Intel® Parallel Amplifier greatly simplified the task of finding hotspots and memory leaks. We were pleased with the 2X overall performance improvement and the elimination of several previously unidentified memory leaks."
Vlad Romashko
Software Development Manager
OpenCascade S.A.S.
IDV Inc.: "The first time I recompiled SpeedTree using Intel® Parallel Studio, performance dramatically improved. I thought I was measuring it wrong. Since then, we’ve been getting 35% speed-ups in the CPU-critical sections of the SpeedTree run-time due to Parallel Composer and Parallel Amplifier. We are completely hooked on the Intel® Compiler and it has become a permanent part of our development environment!"
Chris King
CEO
IDV Inc., Developer of SpeedTree
Autodesk: "Intel Parallel Amplifier is the first tool I turn to for measuring the performance of our apps. I am able to profile Maya with almost zero impact on the performance of the application and get meaningful data back in the profile results. The Hotspot profile has allowed me to quickly identify problem areas of code and improve the overall performance of the application."
William Krick
Autodesk Maya Developer
Autodesk
University of Houston: "I gave Parallel Inspector’s memory checking a try and discovered several memory leak problems which were promptly fixed. The GUI is very easy to use in my opinion."
Dat Chu
Research Assistant
Computational Biomedicine Lab
University of Houston
Radvision: "We are pleased to see that by using Intel’s state-of-theart multithreading optimization tools, we have managed to boost our products’ performance significantly in a very short time."
Sagi Subocki
Products Manager
Radvision
The9 Development Center: "Parallel programming models that leverage the performance potential of multicore are challenging to learn, take longer to develop and require significantly more debugging effort. Intel parallel programming tools streamline the development process. Leveraging Intel® Parallel Amplifier we were able to achieve a 1.7x performance gain in our client application. Moreover, Intel® Parallel Amplifier has an intuitive interface that makes it easy to learn and quickly identify performance bottlenecks."
Sam Xu
Senior Software Engineer
The9 Development Center
Luxology: "We are obsessed with making modo the favorite choice of game artists everywhere. The Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Intel® Parallel Amplifier helps us to make modo as fast and responsive as possible."
Brad Peebler
President
Luxology
University of Houston: "Thanks Intel, you guys rock! I have an image processing GUI app that I developed for a project and it was running quite slow. So I decided to give Parallel Amplifier a run. I was delighted when it pointed me to the right source line that was taking much of the time. I made the change and voila our app is now almost 10 times faster. The GUI is very easy to use in my opinion."
Dat Chu
Research Assistant
Computational Biomedicine Lab
University of Houston
"I started using Intel® Parallel Studio and very quickly discovered that I totally love it! It’s really easy to find and correct memory leaks, one of which I fixed in a couple of seconds – a problem we’ve been trying to fix for weeks. The performance profiling capabilities couldn’t be easier to understand and use. Once the analysis is done, it takes 2 seconds to find the problem and identify what can be improved or fixed in my source code. I also like how I can compare profiling analyses. It’s nice to know – quickly – if I’m improving the code or making it worse! I’m also using Intel® Threading Building Blocks, that come with Parallel Studio, to simplify the threading of my application engine. All Parallel Studio capabilities are very nicely integrated into Microsoft* Visual Studio*, and well documented, which made it easy to get started. After using it, I wouldn't want to program without it. I recommend it to any Visual* C++ developer adding or maintaining parallelism in their software. Thanks Intel. Great job! "
David Mercier
Senior Independent Software Developer
Intel® Compilers
IBM: "We have a long history of working together, creating unique innovation where we can get the best of DB2 working together with the best of Intel. The goal is, of course, to have the fastest performance on Intel® processors with the least amount of effort for DB2 development. So we’ve selected the Intel compiler both because of [Intel’s] excellent support and the outstanding performance that it generates. We have delivered a whole new level of innovation with DB2 9.7 on the Intel Xeon® 5500.
Berni Schiefer
Distinguished Engineer
IBM
Oracle: "We got a big win with the Intel® Compiler. The PGO optimizations enabled us to achieve large performance gains on [Intel] Xeon® and Itanium® 2-based systems running on both Windows* and Linux*."
Vineet Buch
Server Performance Group
Oracle
University of Oxford: "The Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows allows me to develop Fortran using a modern and user friendly IDE (Visual Studio 2005 Pro) while increasing application performance by 31% compared to Compaq Visual Fortran* 6.6a. Debugging is very quick and easy using Visual Studio and the fast speed of the compiler even in debug mode means debugging is much less tiresome."
Ed Tarleton
Materials Dept.
University of Oxford
University of California Berkeley: "I have never seen a compiler so good, reliable and robust as your Intel Fortran compiler. It's so good that I'd never want to switch to any other compiler out there."
Louis Bouchard
Materials Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs &
University of California Berkeley
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing: "The 24.5 to 31.5 percent speedups resulting from Intel® Fortran Compiler for Linux* performance improvements make huge differences in our applications."
Dr. James Murray
Astronomer and System Administrator
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Oracle: "We wanted to squeeze as much performance out of Oracle9i* Database as we possibly could, and that's why we chose the Intel compiler."
Mark MacDonald
Windows Technology Group
Oracle
Persistent Systems: "The Intel C++ Compiler for Linux, along with the associated performance tools and libraries, has helped us extract the best performance out of enterprise and scientific applications on IA-32 and Itanium 2-based platforms."
Barnali Banerjee
Associate Technical Manager
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Oracle: "The Intel compiler has been through heavy testing and debugging and was very easy to use."
Peter Knaggs
Linux Program Office
Oracle
NewTek: "Switching to the Intel® C++ Compiler was not only painless, but it made LightWave 3D* the best optimized and fastest rendering 3D package on the market for the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor."
Rob Hoffmann
Director of Marketing, 3D
NewTek
QNX Software Systems: "With millions of installations worldwide, QNX OS technology has an unmatched reputation for high performance and extreme reliability. Now, with the Intel C++ Compiler for QNX Neutrino RTOS, QNX customers can achieve greater performance than ever, particularly with respect to floating point, multi-media, and vector operations. From compute-intensive videogaming systems to high-end Storage applications, the Intel C++ Compiler offers an ideal complement to the QNX Neutrino RTOS and is a logical choice for any project where performance is paramount."
Shelley Bryen
Strategic Alliances Manager
QNX Software Systems
Philips Medical: "At Philips Medical, we develop software for some of our medical diagnostic products using the Intel C++ Compiler. We found the performance of our applications to be excellent and were pleased to find that we could use the Intel compiler on both Intel and non-Intel 32 and 64-bit processors in combination with different Microsoft compilers. The main features of the compiler that we rely on are the support and optimized code generation for intrinsics (MMX, SSE, SSE2), automatic vectorization, and OpenMP support. We also appreciated the responsiveness to questions and issues related to the compiler. The online support makes it easy to post issues and we were kept informed about when issues would be resolved. Regardless of the processor, we found that the Intel compiler offered the best all-around performance."
Jonas Olsson
Design Engineer
Philips Medical
CST - Computer Simulation Technology GmbH: "CST GmbH uses Intel Visual Fortran to build some of our electromagnetic field simulation software products because they produce applications with outstanding performance. We also like the idea that one compiler product can be used for our 32-bit and 64-bit applications, on both Intel and non-Intel platforms. We've found the compiler to be very stable and, again, offer great performance on both Intel and non-Intel systems. Bottom line - together with Intel's excellent documentation and support - we think the Intel Visual Fortran is the best tool in class."
Michael Bartsch
Managing Director
CST - Computer Simulation Technology GmbH
Paracel: "The Intel compiler generated faster code than other compilers for most of our tests on both ia32 and x86_64 platforms, which helps us deliver the performance our customers demand. It is the only compiler that we've seen that is able to perform multi-file interprocedural analysis (-ipo) with library archive (.a) files. Intel's web-based Premier Support is the best customer support interface that we've used."
Marc Rieffel
Senior Manager
Research and Development
Paracel
MSC Software: "At MSC Software, we have been using Intel C and Fortran Compilers for several years. We use them because Intel has consistently helped us to solve software needs in an ever changing hardware environment. The performance, compatibility, and quality help MSC to build our software and keep us satisfied. I recommend Intel compilers to developers interested in application performance."
Joe Griffin
Linux Porting
MSC Software
BEATCRAFT, Inc.: "By switching to the Intel C++ Compiler we achieved a significant performance increase in our mobile computing, broadcasting and web database applications. In addition, we were able to reduce the code size considerably. Excellent compatibility with our existing development environment and support from Intel made this transition easier."
Masashi Takemoto
CEO
BEATCRAFT, Inc.
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: "We tried an early copy of the Intel Visual Fortran Compiler for Windows and our application built right out of the box. We noticed immediately that Intel improved compile-time and we really like the command- and source-compatibility with Compaq Visual Fortran*. The compiler also has strong Fortran 95 support. The new Intel Visual Fortran compiler did all that I expected of it. It is an impressive accomplishment."
Dr Stuart Campbell
ISIS Facility
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Alias|Wavefront:: "We recently switched to the Intel C++ Compiler from a leading compiler for use on Maya 5.0's dynamics code. The output ran so much faster - up to 90% faster - than before, that our engineer didn't actually believe it and rechecked his data. To say the least, we are impressed with the Intel product."
Kevin Tureski
General Manager of Maya Engineering
Alias|Wavefront
Programmer's Paradise, Inc.: "We've witnessed a rapid increase in demand for development tools for Linux. It's no surprise that the Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux is our Riding the Crest award winner. Intel is at the forefront of publishers providing quality software for cross platform development and performance enhancement. They currently have the fastest growing line of compilers at Programmer's Paradise."
Jeff Largiader
Vice President of Marketing
Programmer's Paradise, Inc.
Etnus: "Being a company that produces debuggers, Etnus TotalView is very closely tied to the compiler for which it provides support. We've seen more demand for support of the Intel C++ and Fortran compilers for Linux than any other commercial Linux compiler. We have an exceptional partnership with the Intel Compiler Group and we believe this partnership will result in an industry-leading development environment The combination of the Intel Linux compilers and Etnus TotalView debugger create a solid foundation on which to build the world's most complex business-critical software."
Mary Kay S. Bunde
Director of Market Development
Etnus
Breault Research: "In addition to built-in OpenMP multi-processor support, I like the Intel Compiler's ability to wring the last ounce of performance from the Pentium® 4 processor while at the same time creating a single executable that runs optimally on other IA32 processors."
Alan Greynolds
V.P. Research
Breault Research
CERN: "The Intel compilers have performed excellently on our ROOT code. On average, the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux produces executables that run 30% faster than ones produced by gcc 3.2. Due to the excellent compatibility with the GNU compilers, the porting effort was reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, the strong technical support that is provided with the Intel Compilers enables very quick turnaround on fixes for customer issues."
Dr. Fons Rademakers
Senior Scientist
CERN
Geneva
Fluent Inc.: "When we ran our standard benchmarks on GNU C and Intel C++ compilers for Linux, the Intel compiler gave us up to 37% performance improvement."
Dr. Dipankar Choudhury
Chief Technology Officer
Fluent Inc.
MUSICMATCH, Inc.: "The Intel® (VTune Performance Analyzer and C++ Compiler) tools were an important aspect of optimizing the product, both the free jukebox product as well as the paid version."
Christopher Allen
Senior V.P. of Product Marketing
MUSICMATCH, Inc.
MUSICMATCH, Inc.: "After optimizing our code, (with the Intel compiler) MP3 encoding speeds dramatically increased, and MUSICMATCH Jukebox was able to rip MP3 files from audio CDs at a blistering 35x speed for the first time"
Jim McLaughlin
Director Hardware Alliances
MUSICMATCH, Inc.
Intel® Performance Libraries
Autodesk: “The Maya team has successfully used Intel's TBB technology to internally parallelize Maya for several releases. Now thanks to Intel, TBB 2.2 lets Maya plug-in developers access the same advanced parallelism features that we've used at no additional charge.”
Gordon Bradley
Maya Performance Team Lead
Autodesk
Epic Games: “Bringing Intel into the Integrated Partners Program and integrating TBB into Unreal Engine 3 ensures our licensees are within reach of the best development tools available. This partnership will help minimize the work required to author multithreaded applications for Unreal-powered games and, in the long term, provide developers with greater access to Intel Tools.”
Dr. Michael Capps
President
Epic Games
Dreamworks Animation: “The Intel® TBB malloc was an important tool in achieving good parallel speedups for our threaded applications, and a drop-in replacement for the memory allocator in the C standard library.”
Ron Henderson
R&D FX Manager
Dreamworks Animation
Quantifi Solutions: “By utilizing Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), Quantifi was able to speed up calculation time by as much as eight times on a standard desktop PC.”
Mark Traudt
CTO
Quantifi Solutions
Exocortex Technologies: “After a couple days of integrating Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB), the team here at Exocortex got a 2.5X performance boost. Our fluid simulation code is now on track to scale in a future proof manner, and we look forward to digging deeper into the Intel Parallel Studio. The huge ROI we got with TBB was fantastic and our only regret is we didn’t investigate it sooner.”
Ben Houston
CTO
Exocortex Technologies
Progress Apama: “Performance is critical to the Progress Apama Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine. In our recent 4.0 release we incorporated the next Intel TBB scalable allocator and observed up to 30-fold speed improvements in some of our customer sourced memory intensive benchmarks. The Intel TBB libraries have proved to be extremely easy to use and reliable in our testing. We are very pleased with the results so far and are actively investigating other parts of TBB for future releases of Progress Apama.”
Dr. Kev Palfreyman
Engineering Manager
Progress Apama
The9 Development Center: “After using Intel TBB, we achieved 3.5 times the performance on our game server on a 4-core machine. I think that the best benefit of using TBB is being able to utilize multi-core processors efficiently and saving development time simultaneously.”
Guoli Chen
Development Manager
The9 Development Center
University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “The Intel® Math Kernel Library is indispensable for any high performance computer user on x86 platforms. It provides a rich, highly optimized collection of math routines, including our own BLAS, LAPACK, and ScaLAPACK in addition to other basic functions such as sparse matrix operations and FFTs. Outstanding performance is achieved on both multicore and multiprocessor systems.”
Prof. Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Innovative Computing Laboratory
ESI Computational Structural Mechanics Group: “PAM-CRASH and PAM-STAMP rely on the performance of the Intel® Math Kernel Library 10.0. We are delighted with the results in terms of both memory use and SMP performance.”
Dr Antoine Petitet, Ph.D
HPC Lead
ESI Computational Structural Mechanics Group
CALYON: “CALYON counterparty risk is computed using complex numerical algorithms, distributed on a cluster of hundreds of Intel processors. We are constantly facing performance issues. The Intel® MKL includes vectors and matrixes calculation, FFT, random generators, and many other algorithms which allowed substantial performance improvements, sometimes up to a hundred times, and reduced development costs.”
Gilles Artaud
Head of Quantitative Research, Risk and Permanent Control
CALYON
ANSYS, Inc.: “Intel® MKL helps ANSYS achieve excellent performance on Intel processors and has powered our engineering simulation software for more than 10 years. Intel multi-core processors coupled with the Intel MKL library help us deliver high performance, with engineered scalability from workstations to server systems. The continued optimization of Intel MKL ensures the best performance for ANSYS software users on the latest generation Intel processors.”
Chris Reid
Vice President of Marketing
ANSYS, Inc.
Paradigm Geophysical: “Paradigm use Intel® MKL in our technical solutions for our oil and gas customers because it provides outstanding performance. Our HPC algorithms rely on Intel MKL being tuned, thread safe and multicore aware across Intel’s processor families. Using Intel MKL enables us to focus our time and effort on our solutions, yet still deliver optimal performance across a range of systems, from laptops and workstations to HPC clusters.”
Alistair Downie
Paradigm Geophysical
DALCO AG Switzerland: “DALCO is happy to recommend the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) as a valuable software accessory to customers who develop their own applications. Linking with MKL provides a significant performance boost over home-grown code for many commonly-used mathematical functions (as well as some that are not so common). It is cost-effective, easy to use, and works as a natural extension to several different compilers.”
Dr. Enda O’Brien
Senior Software Engineer
DALCO AG Switzerland
Nielsen Media Research: "Intel IPP Library and the associated code samples are extremely useful development tools for anyone working in signal processing, image processing and vision. The implementation of the Universal Media Class for handling various types of media streams such as MPEG4 is the most comprehensive and versatile that I have seen. The Vision samples were also extremely easy to use."
Venugopal Srinivasan
Chief Research Scientist
Nielsen Media Research
University of Illinois: "I used to hand-code image processing routines in assembler for fast image recognition and detection frame rate. I 'discovered' that the Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library offers comparable speed to assembler with significantly less programming effort. Also IPP provides a valuable but very complex computer vision algorithm which I wouldn’t even dare to program myself in assembler. Kudos to Intel!"
Javier I. Girado
University of Illinois at Chicago
NPCube: "Intel IPP will help you out solve or discover your current optimizations issues in game development. If you need accurate and fast data computation, this is the way to go!"
Laurent Paret
VP/Business Development
NPCube
RadTIME: "The Intel® IPP [Intel Integrated Performance Primitives] is the fastest image processing library we've found, resulting in much greater interactivity and creative freedom for our users."
"The real benefit of Intel® IPP is that it lets us stream high-resolution video into our rendering engine, allowing it to play at speeds closer to real-time than our competition."
Bruce Rady
President
RadTIME, Inc.
Imagecom: "People want to have the ability to view good quality, high-resolution video from their own desk or on the move. For ImageCom, providing targeted applications that are specifically optimized with Intel® IPP and C++ compiler is crucial to enabling this."
"Our customers were looking for lower cost solutions for delivery of video streams. The Intel C++ Compiler and Intel IPP tools allowed ImageCom to meet the customer's expectations for cost and timescales."
Thomas Dove
CEO
Imagecom, Inc.
Cognitec: "The shorter the response time for any verification or identification process the better the user acceptance. The initial effort to implement Intel IPP was definitely worth the time and money."
"By incorporating Intel Integrated Performance Primitives library Cognitec's software precisely optimizes processor usage for massive numerical operations."
Alfredo Herrera Hernández
Managing Director
Cognitec
AuSIM: "With Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP), AuSIM has leveraged 4X performance gains within its AuSIM3D* audio simulation technology, enabling longer filters, higher-order interpolations, more sound stream through-put, reduced latency, and computational flexibility."
Bryan Cook
Software Architect
AuSIM, Inc.
Logitech: "The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives Library has proven to be a valuable asset to Logitech. Developing products with IPP means we don't worry about optimizing for each Intel processor. IPP does that for us. Intel IPP clearly helps Logitech deliver superior products."
Ken Erbes
Director, Software Applications and Services
Logitech
ABAQUS, Inc.: "By adopting the [Intel® Math Kernel Library] (Intel® MKL) DGEMM libraries, our standard benchmarks timing improved between 43% and 71%, which is very impressive."
Matt Dunbar
Software Developer
ABAQUS, Inc.
SGI: "Intel MKL vector math library is expected to help deliver as much as a 20% improvement in benchmark code for Cambridge University running on a 128-processor SGI Altix* 3700 system."
Crispin Keable, Ph.D.
Systems Engineering Manager
SGI
Rogue Wave Software: "Using Intel Math Kernel Library significantly boosted the performance of Rogue Wave's SourcePro* Analysis on Intel processors. The optimized [Intel] MKL routines easily linked in place of our non-optimized BLAS and LAPACK routines, and delivered the performance boost our customers demanded. SourcePro C++ products have demanding cross-platform portability requirements, and [Intel] MKL worked seamlessly on Windows* and Linux operating systems. I can't think of any reasons not to use the [Intel] MKL."
Randall Robinson
Development Manager
Rogue Wave Software
ComVu: "Intelligent integration of the [Intel® Integrated Performance Primitive] (Intel® IPP) functions has saved us hundreds of hours of development time and greatly sped up delivery of our products to market."
William Mutual
CEO
ComVU
Nielson Media Research: "Intel IPP version 5.0 Library and the associated code samples are extremely useful development tools for anyone working in signal processing, image processing and vision."
Venugopal Srinivasan
Chief Research Scientist
Nielsen Media Research
Mitac: "Intel IPP helped us optimize and boost our application's performance. [Intel] IPP simplified our development process freeing us from complicated image processing, including scaling and data format conversion."
Kexue Zhu
Software Manager
Mitac
Landmark Graphics: "Compressing large JPEG images in real time is critical to the success of the VirtualGL project, which aims to deliver the output of scientific visualization applications as a video stream to remote clients. Using the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives for IA-32 and [Intel®] EM64T, VirtualGL is able to stream more than 25 million pixels per second of visually lossless compressed video using off-the-shelf PCs and a modest network."
Darrell Commander
System Architect
Landmark Graphics
Eyemail: "Intel IPP significantly shortens our development cycle and delivers the performance boost our customers demanded. Intel IPP offers a wide range of functionalities; we can find what we want to look for and deliver high-performance audio and video applications for wireless handheld devices. [Intel] IPP is the best choice of multimedia developers."
David Li
Director, R&D
Eyemail
Ulead Systems, Inc.: "Ulead is very impressed with Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) especially with the image, audio, and video processing functions. We have incorporated Intel IPP in our own software products including Ulead VideoStudio* 7.0. Intel IPP delivers enhanced multimedia capabilities and has improved our product's performance significantly. In addition, because of the cross-architecture compatibility, we are developing new products for Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture using Intel IPP."
Samuel Wu
Assistant Vice President
Video DVD Product Line Director
Ulead Systems, Inc.
Adobe Systems, Inc.: "We are impressed by the breadth and depth of Intel's software tools. After rigorous testing and evaluation of Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP), we are incorporating Intel IPP in our Premiere Pro* product. Adobe Premiere Pro software is a revolutionary nonlinear video editing application that takes video and audio production to an entirely new level, and Intel IPP has been a critical part of our success in delivering cutting-edge technology. Intel IPP will help us maintain our competitive edge."
Steve Warner
Engineering Manager
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Envivio, Inc.: "As the leader in MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets, Envivio aims to deliver high-performance products to the marketplace. The Intel Integrated Performance Libraries (Intel IPP) enables Envivio to achieve this goal by providing a highly optimized library well-suited for advanced media coding and decoding. We are impressed with how Intel IPP delivers fast, high-quality, and sophisticated functions in a very easy-to-use package. Intel IPP significantly shortens our development cycle and allows us to deliver products like EnvivioTV* that supports a wide range of platforms and architectures, including servers, PCs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices."
Eric Deniau
Vice President
Engineering
Envivio, Inc.
SavaJe Technologies: "SavaJe Technologies is the performance leader for Java* technology on Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture application processors. Intel Integrated Performance Primitives offer enhanced performance for video and gaming applications, which SavaJe can make available to Java developers today."
Larry Rao
CTO
SavaJe Technologies
TABLETmedia, Inc.: "Intel is helping us deliver optimized, standards-based, audio- and video-compression technology. With the benefits of Intel IPP libraries using [Intel®] Wireless MMX™ technology, we can now deliver to our customers with a time-to-market advantage, high-performance audio and video applications for wireless handheld devices. These applications can directly communicate to the existing or the future telephone or video conferencing infrastructure."
Alessandro Gatti
CEO
TABLETmedia, Inc.
Inetcam, Inc.: "The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives ([Intel] IPP) has enhanced the iVISTA* application to be more in line with customers' expectations. For example, it enables us to dynamically rescale, in real-time, a video stream without loss of performance. This capability is more robust with Intel IPP."
Leo Volfson
President and Chief Technology Officer
Inetcam, Inc.
Inetcam, Inc.: "The Intel IPP provided a 300% improvement in the number of users who can simultaneously participate in a Webcast. In addition, the migration from the Intel® Pentium® III processor to the Intel Pentium 4 processor took only a day."
Leo Volfson
President and Chief Technology Officer
Inetcam, Inc.
Logitech Inc.: "The Intel Integrated Performance Primitives library is to multimedia programming what the C language and its libraries were to assembly language. The abstraction provided by this library is a welcome addition in the realm of multimedia processing on PC platforms; it provides rapid implementation and integration, optimization for multimedia extension instruction sets, operating system portability, user and kernel mode support, and more - a 'must have' in the toolkit of multimedia developers."
Remy Zimmermann
Video Software Engineering Manager
Logitech Inc.
University of Oxford: "One thing I particularly like about the Intel Math Kernel Library is the option for block-splitting in the random number generation. This is very useful for parallel applications."
Mike Giles
Professor
University of Oxford
NAG Ltd.: "It's possible that the next time you use the Internet to calculate your optimal financial portfolio, the calculation may depend upon the NAG optimization routines and beneath them, the Intel MKL Library."
"Intel MKL plays a key role in the multiplicative effect of the software developer stack."
Dr. David Sayers
Principal Consultant
NAG Ltd.
NAG Ltd.: "The Intel MKL routines perfectly complement the quality and coverage of the NAG libraries and they together deliver a wide-ranging set of high-performance components to NAG's users."
Dr. Brian Ford
Managing Director
NAG Ltd.
SunGard: "The performance increase [for our Panorama* application] from simply using the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL), with its threading capabilities, was amazing. We are more than delighted with the results."
Gavin Lavelle
President
SunGard
Accela: "The Intel Mobile Platform SDK allows our application to better manage battery power and data transfer between a mobile device and an enterprise database, allowing customers to work more efficiently in the field."
Andrew D'Ottavio
Product Manager
Accela
UFIDA: "The Intel Mobile Platform SDK allows our customers to better manage the available bandwidth for various application to get their job done while on the move."
Shiyi Deng
General Manager
UFIDA
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer
Microsoft Corporation: “We have used Intel’s VTune analyzer extensively to optimize the performance of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and are using it for the development of future Microsoft Office Excel releases. The tool helps us save valuable testing time and ensure we focus on delivering a product that takes advantage of hardware configurations.”
Dmitri Kotchetov
Excel Development team
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation: “We used Intel’s VTune analyzer to give customers a better performance experience with our new SQL Server 2008 release, which has earned great reviews for performance and scalability. VTune gives us key performance insights into how our code can scale better, and how we can make more effective use of hardware. And the combination of performance event counters in Intel’s new Xeon 5500 series processors, coupled with VTune’s sampling capabilities, is just killer for performance professionals.”
David Powell
Director, SQL Server Performance Engineering Team
Microsoft Corporation
3M Corporation: “Intuitive analysis tools such as the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and Intel Thread Profiler, along with Intel's technical expertise in multithreading, helped us significantly improve our application's efficiency and performance.”
Carl Skeps
3M Corporation
Yahoo: "We have been using Vtune analyzer for last 2 years. Vtune has proved to be an invaluable tool in optimizing our business-critical applications by isolating performance bottlenecks and providing insight into techniques of removing these bottlenecks. It has helped us realize significant return in our hardware investment."
Sapan Panigrahi
Senior Manager
Yahoo Search Performance Engineering
NEC Solutions: "NEC Solutions America's Advanced Technical Computing Center has been using VTune analyzer for Linux since the software's introduction into the Itanium architecture. Our Applications Analysts have leveraged VTune analyzers code-level capabilities to isolate and correct application performance bottlenecks in several major ISV HPC applications. We regularly use VTune for tuning and optimizing applications targeted at NEC's Intel-based HPC product line. The improved Eclipse GUI in VTune analyzer has made it much easier and much quicker to identify problem areas in the application codes. Intel's VTune Team have been very proactive and responsive to our developer's requests and comments about the product, adding even more value to an already valued product."
Donny Cooper
Senior Systems Analyst
NEC Solutions (America) Inc.
Advanced Technical Computing Center
Abaqus: "VTune analyzer makes it easy for an average developer to quickly pinpoint performance degradations that frequently occur when adding new functionality. This quick analysis allows us to maintain consistent performance levels throughout the development cycle when performance problems are still easy to correct. The enhanced command-line interface and the new automatable data export capabilities in VTune analyzer simplified integration into our daily development activities."
Nick Monyatovsky
Abaqus Inc.
"VTune Analyzer for Linux is very cool. Getting useful data was quick and easy. I applaud you on this. I've never seen a tool that is easier to get the basic information you want to know."
Bradley Sergeant
Software Architect
NVIDIA: "We have been using the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for years to optimize the performance of our NVIDIA graphics drivers to achieve the highest performance for applications from the leading game vendors in the market. The Intel VTune Performance Analyzer is an indispensable tool for game developers. Intel's VTune not only saves time in the code evaluation process, but enables developers to reach higher levels of performance by taking advantage of Intel's new processor features."
Mark Daly
VP of Content Development
NVIDIA
Luxology: "We are obsessed with making modo the favorite choice of game artists everywhere. The Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Intel® Parallel Amplifier helps us to make modo as fast and responsive as possible."
Brad Peebler
President
Luxology
SAS Institute: "SAS has been using the [Intel] VTune Performance Analyzer since 1997. Over the past two years, the [Intel] VTune analyzer has been a vital part of helping SAS implement an approximate 30% speed improvement in our new release, SAS 9.1. There is simply no way we could have done this without [Intel] VTune."
Tom Cole
Senior Director, Host Systems Research & Development
SAS Institute, Cary NC
Envivio: "The Intel VTune Performance Analyzer is extremely stable and is used throughout our development process. We even use the [Intel] VTune analyzer as a test tool."
Erwan Le Bras
Codec Developer
Envivio
MUSICMATCH Inc.: "The Intel (VTune Performance Analyzer and C++ Compiler) tools were an important aspect of optimizing the product, both the free jukebox product as well as the paid version."
Christopher Allen
Senior V.P. of Product Marketing
MUSICMATCH Inc.
MUSICMATCH Inc.: "The Intel VTune Performance Analyzer took a multi-day task and turned it into a sub-day task."
Randy Camp
Vice President, Software R&D
MUSICMATCH Inc.
Intel® Threading Analysis Tools
3M Corporation: “Intuitive analysis tools such as the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and Intel Thread Profiler, along with Intel's technical expertise in multithreading, helped us significantly improve our application's efficiency and performance.”
Carl Skeps
3M Corporation
Pixar: "We are optimizing RenderMan’s core to be very scalable for future multi-core architectures. Intel’s Threading Tools have accelerated our development cycle dramatically. Intel’s Thread Checker for example, helped identify potential threading issues very quickly, in days compared to weeks if done otherwise. Thread Profiler, on the other hand, has helped us understand threading performance problems so we could fix them to improve scalability. The Intel Threading Tools are now an integral part of our development process."
Dana Batali
Director of RenderMan Development
Pixar
Alias: "We found Intel Thread Checker to be an indispensable aid for analyzing threaded code. We were impressed at how well it handled an application as large and complex as Maya. Based on this experience I plan to use this tool on future threading projects. Intel Thread Profiler was very useful for analyzing bottlenecks in our threaded code. Thread Profiler quickly pinpointed problem areas and showed us the reasons for the slowdown, so we were able to restructure the code for better threaded performance."
Martin Watt
Software Architect
Alias
Parallel Programming Workshop: "During development of Windows and Linux applications, it is absolutely necessary to verify OpenMP parallelizations with a race-condition detection tool like Intel Thread Checker with its patented error detection capability and broad OS support."
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner
in Chapter [8a] of the HLRS Parallel Programming Workshop
http://www.hlrs.de/organization/par/par_prog_ws/*
Scansoft: "We used Intel Threading Tools including Intel Thread Profiler to realize improved threaded application performance of Omni Page 15 running on Intel multi-core platforms. We look forward to using Intel Thread Profiler with its critical path analysis and selective magnification of important time regions on future thread optimization projects."
Gyorgy Varszegi
Scansoft
Ritual Entertainment: "[Intel] Thread Checker helped us find non-thread safe functions that allowed two threads to modify the same memory without proper synchronization. We couldn't have gotten the networking up and running as quickly and as efficiently without Thread Checker. Thread Checker is simply an awesome tool and we are not going to develop multi-threaded code without it."
Doug Service
Director of Technology Development
Chris Stark
Software Engineer
Ritual Entertainment
Siemens Medical Solutions: "Intel Thread Checker helped Siemens by identifying issues in software we develop and in software we purchase from third parties. We use Intel Thread Checker to improve the quality of our software and look forward to expanding the use of the tool in more of our software development groups."
Andreas Dietrich
Research & Development Image Processing
Siemens Medical Solutions
ACUSIM Software: "Using Intel Thread Checker we discovered 2 elusive bugs on the very first day, as well as a number of inconsistencies, and opportunities for performance improvement. We were pleasantly surprised because our product, AcuSolve, has been running successfully on multiple platforms for many years. We now have incorporated it in our basic development and release process."
Farzin Shakib
President
ACUSIM Software
Sony Network Applications: "Intel software tools maximized performance for Sony’s DSD Direct audio conversion algorithm. Intel’s VTune Analyzer helped to identify performance bottlenecks. The Intel compiler’s OpenMP support and Thread Profiler provided us an easy multi-threading environment.
Mr. Toshio Ohkouchi
Sony Network Applications Inc.
Japan
Intel® Cluster Tools
SDSC: "One can very easily determine the overall expense of communication, and further get a breakdown into the amount of time spent in each MPI routine. The degree and cause of load imbalance is also easily determined at any number of processes. One particularly useful feature is the Message Statistics display, giving an overall view on a grid of which processors are communicating with each other. Another nice feature is the ability to see, and focus on, the amount of time spent in communication mode as the simulation proceeds."
Dominic Holland
SDSC
Computational Astrophysics Laboratory: "Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector for Linux helped to drastically improve the performance of RIKEN’s molecular dynamics cluster software. We were able to shorten MPI communication time by half by finding and removing bottlenecks with non-blocking communication patterns. Since Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector can embed instrumentation into the program, we can tell the execution time of each function and its load balance, which enabled us to very easily understand where to optimize. Intel’s MPI and Cluster tools provide us the best cluster development environment."
Dr. Takahiro Koishi
Computational Astrophysics Laboratory
RIDEN, Japan
University of Seoul: "We evaluated the Cluster Toolkit and concluded that we would get much better performance on the Intel platform with the Intel software tools. For each application, Intel’s compiler gave us better performance than before and using the Intel cluster Tools let us know how the cluster system ran and how to improve it."
Jinwoo Park
Senior System Manager SPCC
University of Seoul, South Korea
EM Software & Systems: "Our FEKO electromagnetics code runs on various parallel environments (e.g., clusters of different sizes, shared memory machines) and utilizes complex numerical algorithms that are non-trivial to parallelize. Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector have proven to be very valuable tools to help understand FEKO parallel communication patterns and consequently in optimizing the message passing call that result in an extremely well performing electromagnetics ISV cluster application."
Dr. Ing. Ulrich Jakobus
Technical Director
EM Software & Systems
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