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GPA survey Terms and Conditions

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:40 -0800

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers Toolset Survey Contest

Contest Description:

The Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers team is sponsoring a survey to gather feedback about the usage and suggested improvements to this toolset. In addition, an Apple* iPod nano (8 GB, 5th Generation) will be given out weekly to the best answer to one of the survey questions. The survey and contest is open until January 9th, 2010.

Contest is only open to all but only U.S. residents are eligible to win the iPod

How to enter:

Take a brief 6-question survey accessible from the email you received or from the following link at the Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers website . Answer the survey question “If you could add just one new feature for the GPA, what would it be?”

Only the answer to the survey question above is required in order to identify the winner. Any contact information gathered as part of the contest will be treated in accordance with Intel’s privacy policy which participants can review here.

Judging Criteria: All submitted answers to the survey question “If you could add just one new feature for GPA, what would it be?” will be evaluated and the best answer each week will be selected by the Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers Product Manager based on the following criteria:

1) Creative idea or innovative feature for this toolset
2) Valid feature for this toolset

One (1) winner will be selected each week and announced on Monday 5:00 PM U.S. PST the following week. All decisions of the judges are made at the judges’ sole discretion and are final in all matters relating to this Survey / Contest.

Prizes:
One (1) Apple iPod nano* (8 GB, 5th Generation) will be given away each week. A total of six (6) iPod nano units will be given out for the duration of the survey / contest. The estimated value for each prize is USD $130, and the total estimated value is USD $800.

The winner will be informed by email and prizes will be shipped after the winner provides his / her shipment address.

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Unreal Development Kit Download

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:19 -0800

The world’s best game engine...
Now at your fingertips.

Experience the power and potential of Unreal Engine 3. Create amazing games, lifelike scenes and fantastic worlds... for free.

What is it?	Who's it for?	Why UDK?

UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations. The best tools in the industry are in your hands.	Anyone. Everyone. You. Unreal Engine 3 has been used by game developers, researchers, television studios, machinima directors, artists and students. If you have an idea that needs to be brought to life in a game engine, UDK is for you.	Only UDK has the power, flexibility and track record of Unreal Engine 3. These tools have been proven with countless releases and dozens of awards. There is no easier way to make awesome PC games than with UDK.

Check out Whizzle, the first game built entirely with Unreal Development Kit. We've even provided source code so you can see how it was created!

The Ball, originally developed as a mod for Unreal Tournament 3, is an episodic action puzzle game now available as a standalone application. Download now.

Winner of multiple awards in $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. Thanks to the release of Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit, anyone can now download and play “Prometheus” without additional game installation

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Intel Cilk++ SDK Resource Library

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:03:55 -0800

The technical articles listed below supplement the information provided in the Cilk-Programmers-Guide (pdf) included in the Intel Cilk++ SDK download. These articles include introductions to parallelism in general and Cilk++ in particular, case studies that demonstrate how various serial algorithms and applications have been converted to parallel programs with the Intel Cilk++ SDK, and “under-the-cover” explorations that describe some of the details of the implementation of the Intel Cilk++ SDK.

Many of these articles were originally published by Cilk Arts; in some cases, references to Cilk Arts and comments that were posted when the articles were first published have been retained.

Intel® Cluster Ready Participating Vendors

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:37:42 -0800

Get the right configuration, right away. Find certified Intel® Cluster Ready systems, registered Intel Cluster
Ready applications, and certified components to simplify procurement and eliminate the risk involved with
assembling a collection of independent components. Choose certified Intel Cluster Ready clusters based on
the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to deliver more HPC performance in smaller footprints with lower total
cost of ownership.

Systems

System vendors—including OEMs, platform integrators, and system integrators—use the Intel Cluster Ready Specification to build certified Intel Cluster Ready systems. Select a participating system vendor to find a certified cluster. Clusters powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series deliver intelligent performance that maximizes performance and energy efficiency for HPC applications.

To find vendors with Intel Cluster Ready systems based on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, look for
† available now, or ‡ coming soon.

Certified Cluster Ready Hardware & System Vendors

Company	Product / Description
ACMA Computers	Helios 4100 Series HPC Cluster
AMAX Information Technologies †	ServMax 4100 Series HPC Cluster
Appro International †	Xtreme-X1 Supercomputer GreenBlade - gB222X
Aspen Systems Inc. †	Darkcity Kelly
BULL SAS	Bull NovaScale Cluster 400-L Series
Caton ‡	Catón Sistemas Alternativos
ClusterVision ‡	ClusterVision Clusters
Colfax †
Cray Inc. †	The Cray CX1
DALCO AG Switzerland ‡
Dell †	List of Dell HPC Cluster Solution recipes with Intel® Cluster Ready certificates
Eurotech †	AURORA
ION Computer Systems †	ION S10 ICR Cluster Tillamook1
MEGWARE Computer GmbH	CompactCluster PSC4000
NEC Deutschland GmbH	NEC LX-Series
ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH	ParaStation
Penguin Computing †	Cluster computing page
PSSC Labs ‡	CBeST
SGI †	SGI Altix XE240/XE310, XE250/XE320, XE250/XE340, XE500/XE340, XE270 SGI XE1300 SGI XE1300B SGI Altix ICE 8200EX SGI Altix ICE 8200+ SGI VN200 XE Graphics Cluster SGI Rackable C1001-TY5
Silicon Mechanics †	Hyperform ICR Cluster
Soluciones Informáticas Argentinas S.A.	ARM® by SIASA HPC 7500 Cluster
Super Micro Computer, Inc. †	Supermicro SuperBlade Supermicro 1UTwin® Xeon 5500
transtec †	transtec HPC clusters
Viglen †	Viglen compute clusters
VXTECH, a subsidiary of Ciara Technologies ‡	NEXXUS4000

Hardware & System Vendors

Check back for upcoming Cluster Ready certified products from these Intel Cluster Ready program members:

Accel Computers
Acceleware
Advanced Clustering Technologies
allgemeine Computer Technik Germany, Ltd.
Arbyte
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Atipa Technologies
Avnet
B.G.M
Beijing YueHaiYangBo Tech and Trade Center
Boston UK
BoxCluster (HPC Systems Inc.)
Brain Telecommunication Ltd.
Building Networks SA
C3 Computers
CINA LTD
Compusys
Concurrent Thinking
Convey
Creative PC Networks
CSC
DataSeek
Dawning
Dedicated Computing
Digital Henge
Dixie Consulting
DOTS Technologies
EGA SYSTEM

Elonex
Evergrid
Flextronics
FMS (NI) Ltd
Fujitsu
HCL
Hitachi
HPC Systems
HPC Technologies
ict AG
ION Computer Systems
Ironsystems Inc
Itautec
ITDIREC
itsystems Deutschland AG
JC Technology / Ace Computers
JP Sa Couto SA
Kraftway
Lenovo
Linvision
Liquid Computing
Logicom
Melrow
Micro-Inn (Pvt) Limited
Microway
Nor-tech

PC Quest
Powerleader
PRO SYS
Proteccian y Negocios Alternativos s.a
quibus computers enzo
Reason
R-Style Computers
S&C
S.G.Infosystems
Sailinsoft
Samsung
Scalable Servers
Streamline Computing ‡
sunrise technology
SURIA COMPUTER CORPORATION
Talentain Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
TeamHPC
Techpaq Infotech
T-Platforms
Unicom-Service
US TECH Informatica Ltda
USTAR
Verari
Vision Integrated Systems
WALS COMMUNICATIONS
Western Scientific
Wipro
Yamo Sp. z o.o.

Middleware

Certified Cluster Ready middleware automates the cluster deployment process, allowing HPC users to bring certified systems online using an efficient, repeatable method. Select a certified middleware or provisioning vendor to ensure the software stack and HPC applications are correctly deployed and managed on all nodes.

Company	Product / Description
Adaptive Computing	Moab
Allinea	Distributed Debugger DDT
Altair Engineering	PBS Professional
Aspen Systems Inc.	Aspen Beowulf Cluster - Management Software
Bright Computing	Bright Cluster Manager
Clustercorp	ROCKS+ 4.3.0 Intel Developer Roll 4.3.0 ROCKS+ 5.0 Intel Developer Roll 5.0 ROCKS+ 5.1 Intel Developer Roll 5.1
Concurrent Thinking Ltd.
Infiscale	Perceus
NEC Deutschland GmbH	OSCAR-Pro
Penguin Computing	Scyld ClusterWare
Platform Computing	Platform Open Cluster Stack 4.1.1-2.1 Platform Open Cluster Stack 4.4.0 Platform Open Cluster Stack 5.2 Platform Open Cluster Stack 5.3 Platform Cluster Manager 1.2 Standard Edition Platform Cluster Manager 1.2.1 Standard Edition
SGI	SGI ISLE Cluster Manager SGI Tempo
Univa UD	UniCluster

Components

Certified Intel Cluster Ready components include hardware and software products that can enhance the capabilities of certified Intel Cluster Ready systems and registered applications. Whether you are first deploying your cluster or modifying an existing one to meet your changing needs, select certified components to ensure interoperability.

Company	Product / Description
DataDirect Networks
Flextronics	InfiniBand Switch
Fujitsu
Gluster	GlusterFS
HighPoint Technologies
IBRIX
Mellanox	Mellanox MHGS18-XTC Mellanox MHGH29-XTC Dell 40Gb/s InfiniBand HCA MCQH29-XCC Dell 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switch M3601Q
NetEffect	Intel's NetEffect™ Ethernet Server Cluster Adapters
Novell	Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise
Panasas	Panasas ActiveStor 3000
Panduit Corp.	PANDUIT InfiniBand Cabling
QLogic	QLogic InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter 7104-HCA-LPX1P-DDR QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Director Switch QLE7140 - InfiniBand HCA - SDR QLE7240 - InfiniBand HCA - TrueScale DDR with PCIe x8 QLE7280 - InfiniBand HCA - TrueScale DDR with PCIe x16 HCA: Qlogic TrueScaleQLE72xx QDR HCA: Qlogic TrueScaleQLE73xx QDR Switch: Qlogic TrueScale – 12000 Series QDR InfiniBand switch Switch: Qlogic TrueScale – 12300 Series QDR InfiniBand switch
Red Hat	Red Hat HPC Solution 5.3
Voltaire	Voltaire® Grid Director™ 2004 Voltaire® Grid Director™ 2012 Voltaire® Grid Director™ 9024
Votronics Inc
Zarlink Semiconductor

Applications

A “registered” Intel Cluster Ready application is one that has been validated on a certified Intel Cluster Ready cluster. Choose an independent software vendor (ISV) and the application you plan to use with your cluster to begin your selection process.

Company	Product / Description
Accelrys	Discovery Studio 2.0 Materials Studio 4.3 (see additional requirements)
Altair Engineering	RADIOSS 90 SA1 (see additional requirements)
ANSYS	ANSYS version 11 (including the MPI version Dansys) (see additional requirements) Fluent 6.3 (see additional requirements) ANSYS Mechanical 12.0.1 Fluent 12.0
CD-Adapco	STAR-CD V4.02.001 (see additional requirements) STAR-CCM+ v3.06
EM Software & Systems - S.A. (Pty) Ltd	FEKO Suite 5.3 FEKO Suite 5.5
ESI Group	Pamcrash 2G v2007 (see additional requirements)
Flow Science, Inc.	FLOW-3D/MP Version 3.0
ICON Technology & Process Consulting Ltd.	ICON FOAMpro 1.5-1.6 (see additional requirements)
LSTC – Livermore Software Technology Corporation	LS-DYNA LS971.7600.398 MPP for Intel64 MPI LS-DYNA LS971.7600.1224 MPP for Intel64 MPI LS-DYNA/MPP R3 or contact LSTC directly (see additional requirements) LS-DYNA LS971R3.2/MPP for Intel MPI (single precision) or contact LSTC directly (see additional requirements) LS-DYNA LS971R4.2/MPP
MAGMA Giessereitechnologie GmbH	MAGMA V4.4-p19 (see additional requirements)
The Mathworks	Distributed Computing Toolbox 3.1 and Distributed Computing Engine 3.1
Metacomp Technologies, Inc.	CFD++ 7.1.1
MSC.Software	MD Nastran R2 MD Nastran R2.1 MD Nastran R3 MSC Marc 2007 MSC Marc 2008 R1
MTM Software
Schlumberger	Petrel Seismic Server 2008.1 (see additional requirements)
Siemens PLM Software	NX Nastran, Version 5.1 (see additional requirements)
SIMULIA	Abaqus/Explicit 6.7-1, 6.7-2, 6.7-3, 6.7-4, 6.8-1, 6.8-2, 6.8-3, 6.8-4, 6.8-EF1, 6.8-EF2, 6.9-1 Abaqus/Standard 6.7-1, 6.7-2, 6.7-3, 6.7-4, 6.8-1, 6.8-2, 6.8-3, 6.8-4, 6.8-EF1, 6.8-EF2, 6.9-1 Abaqus/CAE 6.7-4, 6.8-1, 6.8-2, 6.8-3, 6.8-4, 6.8-EF1, 6.8-EF2, 6.9-1 Abaqus/Viewer 6.7-4, 6.8-1, 6.8-2, 6.8-3, 6.8-4, 6.8-EF1, 6.8-EF2, 6.9-1
Software Cradle Co., Ltd.	SC/Tetra V7 STREAM V3.15
Wolfram Research, Inc.	gridMathematica 2.2

Threading Challenge 2009 - Phase 2 - #5: 3-D Convex Hull

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:29 -0800

Below you will find many of the entries received for our 5th problem of phase 2 - 3-D Convex Hull. Please feel free to review and join us in the forum dedicated to this problem to discuss.

Winning Submission:

*BradleyKuszmaul: Code / Write-up (to be posted soon)

Other Entries:

*

Visualize This! on Intel Software Network TV

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:10 -0800

Watch Visualize this alternate Tuesdays at noon PST. Arti Gupta your community manager talks with Intel experts and external luminaries on visual computing trends and Intel tools and technologies.

Show Schedule

	Steve Pitzel community manager for the Artist/Animator area on the Visual computing community will speak with Son Kim, winner of the 1st “user created content” contest @ Project Offset. His creation the Bug-Back toad can be found here	11/10/2009
	Dr. Peter E. Raad, Professor and Executive Director of the Guildhall at SMU, will talk about game development in academia	12/1/2009
	Lakshmi Narasimhan – Senior Application Engineer at Intel will speak with Arti on the tips and challenges with Cross platform game development	12/15/2009
	Holiday	12/29/2009
	Topic tbd	1/12/2010
	Dr. Michael Gourlay of the University of Central Florida will talk about fluid simulation	1/29/2010
	Professor DJ Kehoe will talk about Artificial Intelligence engines	2/9/2010

Past Episodes

	Hansoft CEO Patric Palm on why agile development tools are needed in game development	11/3/2009
	Drew Sikora, Executive producer at GameDev.net, spoke about Game Development trends and challenges	10/20/2009
	Arti spoke with Intel researcher Robert Adams on Building the future Virtual worlds	10/6/2009
	From Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Arti will spoke with Paul Lindberg – Intel engineer on How Parallel Studio can become an indispensable tool for game development.	9/23/2009
	Arti spoke with Intel Application Engineer Charles Congdon on the work he and his team have done with Dreamworks Animation. Intel and Dreamworks optimization and re-architecture work.	9/15/2009
	Intel's Kath Knobe and Ganesh Rao spoke about Concurrent Collections for C/C++	8/28/2009
	Arti spoke with Evelyn Watts Field services manager at Corel about Movie Factory 7 and their use of the Intel Media SDK. Visualize this! Live from Siggraph - Corel Movie Factory 7 and Intel Media SDK	8/17/2009
	John Civatte Director of Sales at BOXX technologies spoke about the 4850 workstation, 10300 Render farm and Intel processors Visualize this! Live from Siggraph - BOXX products and their use of Intel processors	8/17/2009
	Arti spoke with Carl Jacobson VP of Marketing at Cakewalk about Sonar 8 and their use of threading with Intel processors and tools Visualize this! Live from Siggraph - A talk with Cakewalk	8/17/2009
	Arti spoke with Brad Peebler Vice President at Luxology about modo, Nexus and how their use of threading, Intel processors and threading tools has enabled them to meet their scale needs Visualize this! Live from Siggraph - Luxology and its use of multicore	8/17/2009
	I spoke with Robert Hoffmann Senior Product Marketing Manager at Autodesk about Maya, 3ds Max and Intel processors and tools Visualize this! Live from Siggraph - Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max	8/17/2009
	For todays show Arti shared a new Intel product announced at Siggraph last week, the beta version of the Intel Media SDK. Visualize this! Intel Media SDK beta launch	8/14/2009
	Our topic today is the Kaboom project, and the new whitepaper multi threaded fluid simulation for games. Joining us today are Jeff Freeman and Quentin Froemke software engineers in the Visual computing software division at Intel. Visualize this! 05 the Kaboom project	7/28/2009
	My guest for this show is Chris Cormack, product designer. Chris will talk to us about the release 2.1 of the Intel Graphics Performance Analyzer toolset Visualize this! Chris Cormack GPA product designer on GPA 2.1	7/16/2009
	Our guest today is Chris Taylor CEO Gas Powered Games. Chris will talk to us about the making of Demigod Visualize this! GPG CEO Chris Taylor on Demigod and its use of GPA	7/6/2009
	Scott Crabtree, Engineering manager in the Visual Computing Software Division shared the game demos developed by his team and discussed tips and techniques on how to use parallel programming techniques combined with the power of multi core processors for enhanced game performance. Visualize this! Game Demos - Smoke, Pet Me, Destroy the Castle and Horsepower	6/19/2009
	Guest for this show was Steve Pitzel, Community manager for Visual Computing on the Intel Software Network. Steve and Arti talked about the new Artist / Animator resources area on the Visual computing community Visualize This! Artist/Animator Resources	6/12/2009
	Joining me for this show is Steve Winburn – Senior Graphics Product Evangelist. Our topic - Intel’s recently announced Graphics Performance Analyzer toolset. Intel Graphics Performance Analyzer toolset	6/8/2009
	Arti and Mandy Mock Program Manager for Intel's Visual Adrenaline Program talked about the Visual Adrenaline program. The Intel Visual Adrenaline Program Show	6/8/2009

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Intel® Cluster Ready Document Library

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:07 -0800

Overview

General Documents

Documents for ISVs

Documents for OEMs and Platform Integrators

Intel® Cluster Checker Documents

Overview

IDC White Paper: Intel Cluster Ready program builds HPC momentum
Intel® Cluster Ready White Paper
Intel® Cluster Ready Program Brief for Customers

General Documents

Intel® Cluster Ready FAQ
Intel® Cluster Ready Specification
Intel® Cluster Ready Specification Addendum
Intel® Cluster Ready Recipes
Intel® Cluster Ready Recipes at Intel® Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel® ESAA)
Intel® Cluster Ready Trademark and Logo Usage Guidelines

Documents for ISVs

Intel® Cluster Ready Application Registration Procedure
Intel® Cluster Ready Program Agreement for ISVs
Intel® Cluster Ready Program Brief for ISVs

Documents for OEMs and Platform Integrators

Intel Cluster Ready Manufacturing Requirements
Creating and Maintaining Cluster Recipes
Certification Quick-Start Guide
Mass-Producing Your Certified Cluster Solutions
Six Steps to a Successful Cluster Certification *

* If you have Intel® Cluster Checker 1.2 or older, use Seven Steps to a Successful Cluster Certification.
Otherwise, use the aforementioned Six Steps document

The Basics of Intel Cluster Ready System Deployment
Intel® Cluster Ready Program Agreement for HW Vendors
Intel® Cluster Ready Program Brief for OEMs and Platform Integrators

Intel® Cluster Checker

Intel® Cluster Checker Advanced Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.4 docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.3 Update Release docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.3 docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.2 docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.1 Build 018 docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Intel® Cluster Checker 1.1 docs
User's Guide
Module Reference
Developers Guide

Threading Challenge 2009 - Phase 2 - #4: The Travelling Baseball Fans

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:51:46 -0800

Below you will find many of the entries received for our 4th problem of phase 2 - The Travelling Baseball Fans. Please feel free to review and join us in the forum dedicated to this problem to discuss.

Winning Submission:

*akki: Code / Write-up

Other Submissions:

*alinac: Code / Write-up

*BradleyKuszmaul: Code / Write-up

*avparate: Code / Write-up

*mdm100: Code / Write-up

*shikantaza: Code / Write-up

Threading Challenge 2009 - Phase 2 - #3: Graph Coloring

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:46:34 -0700

Below you will find many of the entries received for our 3rd problem of phase 2 - Graph Coloring. Please feel free to review and join us in the forum dedicated to this problem to discuss.

Winning Submission:

*akki: Code / write-up

Other Submissions:

*mdm100: Code / Write-up

*BradleyKuszmaul: Code / Write-up

*avparate: Code / Write-up

Threading Challenge 2009 - Phase 2 - #2: Knights Tour

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:48:43 -0700

Below you will find many of the entries received for our 2nd problem of phase 2 - Knights Tour. Please feel free to review and join us in the forum dedicated to this problem to discuss.

Winning Submission:

*mdm100: Code / Write-up

Other Submissions:

*Still to come!