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I just discovered Valgrind, it's about time.

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (128 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 12:37 pm
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Most of my coding career at Intel was been spend using C#, but with the mesh project, we needed to build the background peer-to-peer agent as small and as portable as possible and coding it in C made sense. Well, anything you code in raw C code, there are plenty of opportunities for problems. I [...]

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Category: Open Source

Overheating in a million gallons of water (a MID saga)

By Dale Taylor (Intel) (47 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 9:39 am
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On a family boating trip, our engine was overheating.  The warning system kicked in and actually cut engine power into a limp along mode until we could anchor safely.  While the kids swam I was able to use my MID to get online and do some searching to figure out what the problem was! Out boat [...]

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Category: Mobility

"If you want to be creative, get out there and do it. It's not a waste of time."

By Steve Pitzel (Intel) (38 posts) on March 9, 2010 at 8:15 am
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I have to admit, I've gotten a wee bit jaded over time. I've seen a lot of  Academy Award-winners give lots of speeches. I don't fault the folks for the "me" moment it usually becomes - sooo much work goes into every aspect of film-making, and so much of it requires a commitment so far [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Visual Computing

Achieving High Web Throughput with VMware vSphere 4 on Intel Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem) servers

By Bill Pearson (Intel) (40 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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Something came across my inbox recently that I just had to share.  I just finished watching The Bucket List.  One of my favorite scenes was when Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are racing around the track driving these classic muscle cars.  The need for speed is alive and well it seems. We've been working with our [...]

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Category: Virtualization

Using the Media SDK - Simple DirectShow Trancoding

By Eric Sardella (Intel) (11 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 2:33 pm
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Calling all developers working with media technologies! If you haven’t already, download and learn Intel’s Media SDK 1.5. Its easier then DXVA code and using it ensures you are forward compatible with future Intel hardware. Check it out.. Download it here. Need a quick way to transcode a clip? Use the Media SDK’s DirectShow filters to [...]

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Category: Media, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Browzwear Approved for Accelerate Innovation Program in Israel

By Jon Bullinger (Intel) (41 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 1:08 pm
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Member Browzwear Ltd. of Israel used Intel Software Development Tools to optimize some of its flagship products on Intel multi-core architecture. They are also participating in the Accelerate Innovation Program in cooperation with the Office of the Chief Scientist in Israel.  To Learn more about the Browzwear Ltd. Click Here .  To learn more about the [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

In what way can C++0x standard help you eliminate 64-bit errors

By Andrey Karpov (30 posts) on March 8, 2010 at 12:17 pm
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Programmers see in C++0x standard an opportunity to use lambda-functions and other entities I do not quite understand :). But personally I see convenient means in it that allow us to get rid of many 64-bit errors.

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Category: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

Mesh development update

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (128 posts) on March 6, 2010 at 8:08 am
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Yesterday we released a new version of the mesh tools. Nothing earth shattering yet, but the main new feature I have been working on is connecting a mesh of computers to an external web site. Basically, you use the mesh to coordinate computers in such a way as to keep one of them connected to [...]

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Category: Open Source, What If Software

Dude! Who killed my 1st Person Shooter?

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (14 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm
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[Disclaimer] So bear with me because this post is intentionally aimed at being both whimsical and controversial at the same time. Not to mention point out some huge biases I have around gaming. Some… might even think I’m a purist or worse… a snob! Phooey. Approximately twelve years ago, when some of today’s gamers [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Parallel Programming Talk #66 - Listener Question "What is “acquire memory access semantics” and do I need to worry about this in parallel programming?"

By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (130 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 2:09 pm
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PPTalk #66 Welcome to Show 66 of Parallel Programming Talk. Today is March 2nd. On this episode Clay and Aaron will be Answering Listener Questions. Download Link - MP4 Video File: Download Link - MP3 Audio File: First The Big News: Congratulations to Parallel Programming Talk and the entire Intel Software Network TV team for being recognized by the American Marketing [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming

Don't Hinder Concurrency!

By Dmitriy Vyukov (8 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 1:29 pm
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I've just read the article "Use Thread-local Storage to Reduce Synchronization" (from the "Intel Guide for Developing Multithreaded Applications") and here is my take on that.

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Category: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

GDC 2010

By Quentin Froemke (Intel) (2 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 12:57 pm
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Next week is GDC in San Francisco where I will be a copresenter for a talk on vectorization. The talk is geared towards intermediate level programmers who are interested in SIMD programming but should be accessible to most anyone. See you there!

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Category: Events, Gaming

ConfigurationErrorsException

By Doug Holland (Intel) (248 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 11:31 am
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While with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 yesterday, I began receiving a ConfigurationErrorsException, as the following screen capture shows and what was strange was that the same application domain configuration was working just fine earlier that day. In fact there hadn't been any code changes and according to Team Foundation Server that code had not changed in [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

Have you USED the Partner Program Product Launch KIT?

By Jon Bullinger (Intel) (41 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 10:32 am
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The Intel Software Partner Program offers members a Product Launch Kits that helps maximize product launch results with a plan that helps orchestrate and closely manage the details. The official trigger to start is when your new product idea is approved and you start your project plan in the Intel Software Partner Program.  Use the templates [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Novell’s Virtualization and Hypervisor Strategy

By Dawn M. Foster (91 posts) on March 5, 2010 at 8:00 am
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After the recent joint announcement between Novell and Citrix for collaboration on enterprise-class virtualization and cloud computing, Michael Applebaum took some time to discuss Novell’s virtualization and hypervisor strategy on the Novell blogs. For the most part, Novell's virtualization strategy hasn't really changed. According to Michael, "Novell is pursuing a heterogeneous, multi-platform hypervisor and guest OS [...]

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Category: Open Source, Virtualization
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