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Porting 32-bit Applications to the Itanium® Architecture
Introduction These labs provide best known methods for porting your application. Sample Code is included for you to try out the concepts. You will need access to an Itanium® 2-based system to practice ...
Type: Code
08/21/2009
Simplify Threading for Linux* and Itanium® Processors
Introduction By Matt GillespieDevelopers must thread their applications properly in order to get the best performance out of the parallel architectures in Intel® processors. Threading is particularly ...
Author: Matthew Gillespie
08/17/2009
Grid Supercomputer Demonstrates Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Prowess
by Andrew Binstock Introduction For years, universities and research institutions have been trying to develop supercomputing power that could scale incrementally and inexpensively. Their quest led th ...
08/14/2009
Accessing an IA-32 DLL from a native Itanium® Architecture Process
By Clayne Robison, Intel Software Solutions Group, Server ISV EnablingPorting to Itanium architecture: Avoiding dependencies on 3rd-party IA32 libraries by using COM or other out-of-process marshalling ...
Author: Clayne Robison (Intel)
Type: Code
07/08/2009
Porting Chains: 64-bit Intel® Xeonr Processor to Intel® Itanium® Processor
by Alan Zeichick Introduction Read the tale of two migrations: vertically to the Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology, then horizontally to Intel® Itanium® microarchit ...
10/23/2008
Performance Modeling Using Compilers
by Max Alt Intel® Solution Services Introduction With maturing compiler technologies, compile-time analysis can be a very powerful tool for optimizing code on any architecture. In combination wit ...
Author: Maxim Alt (Intel)
10/23/2008
Demystifying the Enterprise Choices and Scaling Hardware for Oracle*-Based Apps
by Matt Gillespie Introduction The 64-bit Intel® Xeon® processor extends the choices for organizations developing and deploying enterprise applications based on Oracle Database* 10g. This archit ...
Author: Matthew Gillespie
10/23/2008
HP Itanium® 2-Based Systems Now Available
Created jointly by Intel and HP, the Itanium® 2 Development Reference Platform for ISVs is a tested and integrated bundle of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based servers and development tools that ISVs need ...
10/20/2008
Itanium® Processor Family Performance Advantages: Register Stack Architecture
By Scott Townsend Introduction The Race Track Analogy If your application program is a racecar and the computer it runs on is the racetrack, then you'd like to see as many straight-aways as possible ...
10/20/2008
Cross Intel® Architecture Development Tools
Introduction Recent years have yielded an amazing number of new operating systems, new processors, and new platform capabilities that provide exciting opportunities for application developers. Con ...
10/17/2008
Why Migrate to the Intel® Itanium® 2-based Platform in the Enterprise?
by Andrew Binstock Introduction Modern enterprise applications require servers that deliver significant processing power on a sustained basis. Only systems with the muscle power to crunch large v ...
Author: Andrew Binstock
10/17/2008
Portable Performance Measurement Macros for Intel® Architecture
Introduction by Michael StonerIf you are an application performance engineer, you might be familiar with the process of developing a benchmark to measure the execution time of the piece of code you ar ...
Author: Michael Stoner (Intel)
10/17/2008
Intel® Xeon® Processors and Itanium® 2 Processors - Picking the Right
by Roger Smith Introduction Software developers have two powerful allies in their quest for optimal applications performance: Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) and Hyper-Threading ...
10/17/2008
Porting to the Intel® Itanium® Architecture
by Andrew Binstock To get you started, here's a quick overview of the basic issues developers will deal with in porting 32-bit code over to the world of the 64-bit Intel® Itanium® architecture, along ...
Author: Andrew Binstock
10/17/2008
Creating C++ Applications for Itanium® 2 Processors in Linux*
  Introduction A move to the Itanium® 2 processor brings a lot to learn. Even the most fundamental developer action, compilation of a source text into an executable, changes. Here's what you need to ...
Author: Cameron Laird
10/17/2008
Performance Analysis of Applications Running on Itanium® 2 Processors
by Richard J. Greco Introduction Hotspot analysis using tools like the Intel VTune™ Performance Analyzer is a common technique for identifying bottlenecks and improving software performance. The pr ...
Author: Richard Greco (Intel)
10/17/2008
Tests of Efficient Implementation of Madd Algorithms on an Itanium®-based System
  Introduction By Joe Bissell,, University of DelawareGary Zoppetti, University of Delaware, andWalter Triebel, Fairleigh Dickinson University Integer matrix multiplication is a common procedure tha ...
10/17/2008
Recognizing Efficient Use of Caches in Code for the Itanium® Processor Family
by Joseph Bissell, University of Delawareand Walt Triebel, Fairleigh Dickinson University(Adapted from original material authored by Rick Booth) Introduction To achieve optimal performance from p ...
Author: bissell,watriebel@aol.com
10/17/2008
Black Belt Itanium® Processor Performance: Visual Inspection of Compiler-Generated Assembly (Part 5 of 5)
by David Levinthal Introduction This paper, the final in a series of five articles on optimizing software for the Itanium® processor family, helps developers identify well-compiled code by visual ...
10/16/2008
Black Belt Itanium® Processor Performance: Use of Constrained Event Collection (Part 4 of 5)
by David Levinthal Introduction This paper, fourth in a series of five articles on optimizing software for the Itanium® processor family, focuses on the sources of execution inefficiency and how ...
Author: David Levinthal (Intel)
10/16/2008
Black Belt Itanium® Processor Performance: Performance Monitoring Capabilities (Part 2 of 5)
by David Levinthal Introduction This paper, second in a series of five articles on optimizing Itanium® processor family software, focuses on the unprecedented performance monitoring capabilities ...
Author: David Levinthal (Intel)
10/16/2008
The Intel® Itanium® Processor Developer Resource Guide
by Andrew Binstock There's lots out there for everyone interested in the Intel® Itanium® architecture - so we've spent days digging through tons of links to find the most valuable and to-the-point lin ...
10/07/2008
Itanium® Architecture Assembler User's Guide
  Introduction Intel is providing the source code for the Itanium® Architecture Assembler (IAS) for use by software developers to port to their development platforms and to use for writing and assemb ...
10/07/2008
Linux* and Itanium® Architecture - The Business Side
Introduction By Allan McNaughtonToday's enterprise IT professionals are faced with a large array of choices when selecting server-operating environments to deploy in the corporate data center. Linux*, ...
10/06/2008
Setting Up Dual Boot in Itanium®-based Systems
Introduction by Khang NguyenIntel CorporationTo set up dual booting in Itanium®-based systems, Microsoft requires a new disk style called GUID Partition Table (GPT) instead of master boot record (MBR) ...
Type: Code
10/03/2008