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TechEd09: I'm on my way to Berlin

By Michael J Huelskoetter (62 posts) on November 8, 2009 at 5:43 am
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So, it's Sunday morning, and I'm nearly on my way to Berlin as I'm going to travel to Microsoft's huge developer & IT conference Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009. There I will video blog together with Tom Papadhimas and some Intel folks about the interesting topics concerning parallel programming, multi-core and other stuff. And this will [...]

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Category: Events, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core

Technology in 3D

By Rick Puckett (Intel) (8 posts) on November 6, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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Is a 3D interface right for your application? Check out the new Gartner report on 3D interfaces. See it here Enroll in Intel Software Partner Program today and learn how the program can help you deliver innovative solutions to meet your users' demands. Learn More

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

From the Labs - 3D scanning with a camera

By Sean Koehl (Intel) (1 posts) on November 6, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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Hi -- I'm joining the ISN blog community to share some research efforts from Intel labs that may be of interest to curious software developers. Today I wanted to give a brief summary of one visual computing application that we are investigating in a project we usually call "3D content creation for amateurs." In this project [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Visual Computing

TechEd09: How parallel is the Microsoft conference?

By Michael J Huelskoetter (62 posts) on November 6, 2009 at 4:26 am
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If you look at the Microsoft's Tech-Ed web page you'll find out that there's a lot of things which are parallel. For instance all the different tech session run in parallel so that as much as possible topics can be covered during Tech-Ed. But also the huge showcase is somehow parallel: there are many companies [...]

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Category: Events

Living in a connected world and managing change

By Dale Taylor (Intel) (58 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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Divorce, it happens.  How do you manage divorce with Facebook and so many other connections in life?  What if you keep finding out things you would rather not know via social networking sites?  A simple example, my ex and her family are visible to me through our common children on Facebook.  Honestly I would rather [...]

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Category: Cool Software, Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility, Social Media & Virtual Worlds

TechEd 2009 Europe

By Asaf Shelly (16 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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Hi All, If you are going to the event next week in Berlin then let me know about it. Maybe we can meet face to face and if there are enough of us perhaps even a gourp community meeting. This can be a good opportunity to meet the experts. In any case, you are all welcome to [...]

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Category: Academic, Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, Software Engineering

Use of rand() in OpenMP parallel sections

By Andrey Karpov (7 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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The error consists in the fact that every parallel thread has its own seed and if no special initialization is carried out, rand() function will return the same value in all the threads. Most likely, this will not be the required result.

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Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core

OpenMP and exceptions

By Andrey Karpov (7 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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You can use exceptions inside parallel regions. But they mustn't leave these parallel regions. Exceptions should be caught and processed inside a parallel region by using try/catch. If the exception leaves the parallel region it will cause fail and most surely program crash.

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Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core

Change of type alignment and the consequences

By Andrey Karpov (7 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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When porting software one of the task a developer faces is to change types' sizes and rules of their alignments. Not so long ago we provided support of the diagnosing rule allowing you to detect data structures which use memory on 64-bit inefficiently in Viva64 analyzer. But there is still some research work to be [...]

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Category: Software Engineering

October 27: John Schiavone, Cadence Design Systems: Real World Parallelism:

By Tom Spyrou (4 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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Hi Everyone, I thought that I would post this since one of my co-workers at Cadence will be gave a webinar on his experience parallelizing an existing application. The application and algorithms involved are really complex. It was especially interesting because it involves legacy code and also the development environment was Windows unlike many EDA applications [...]

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Five role playing exercises to introduce parallelism concepts

By Robert Chesebrough (Intel) (8 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 11:12 am
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Since the kickoff of the High School Parallelism bootcamp this summer, I've received several requests for a write up of the five role playing activities we used. The activities put students in the place of procesor cores and had them perform tasks in parallel. These activities proved to be popular among many of the [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core

Interview: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong, Open Source Virtualization Expert

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Yaozu (Eddie) Dong is a technical lead in the Open Source Technology Center in Shanghai, PRC. He joined Intel in 1998 and had been involved in various embedded system projects from PalmOS to Windows CE to Linux, and several virtualization projects. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, [...]

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Category: Open Source, Virtualization

TechEd09: What you can expect from Intel's conference attendance

By Michael J Huelskoetter (62 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 2:02 am
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As I wrote in my yesterday's blog post we will be at Microsoft's developer conference Tech-Ed Euirope 2009 which will take place in Berlin this year. Fortunately at the same time the whole city will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. So there will be a few people in Berlin during [...]

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Category: Events, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core

New video, Community Member at Large Chosen, Odds and Ends...

By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (3 posts) on November 4, 2009 at 9:44 pm
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Our community has snagged some new high-quality stuff lately starting with Shmuel Gershon's dynamically entitled blog: "Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids". Shmuel is pretty knowledgeable about this new Intel® AMT™ feature, to be available on some 2010 platforms, and a big fan as well. I think we'll be hearing more from him [...]

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Category: Manageability

NAGFO Gaming and Animation Summit, India (6th & 7th Nov 2009)

By Preethi Raj (Intel) (3 posts) on November 4, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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We are all geared up to attend NAGFO’s Annual Gaming and Animation Summit that bring together the crème de la crème of the India gaming and animation industry, starting tomorrow in Hyderabad, India. This year one complete day has been dedicated to Game Developers with multiple sessions focusing on various aspects of game development. The event [...]

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Category: Events, Visual Computing
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