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Faster Scenery Displacement Mapping

By Mark Randel (7 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 12:52 pm
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Often times, the simplest and most elegant algorithms are obvious, but take the longest to figure out. In one level for an Infernal Engine game, we wanted to fully displacement map every pixel in our scenery, but we couldn't afford the complexity of the shader on each and every pixel. One solution would [...]

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Category: Gaming, Visual Computing

Fast Track Intel Software Webinar 2/10/10 (9AM)

By Jon Bullinger (Intel) (35 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 11:39 am
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Intel has developed a new series of fast and free tools designed specifically for Intel Software Partner Program members, enabling them to assess code quickly and easily. This webinar will be an educational session with Intel senior executive, Dave Wheat, providing the following information: Sign up today Why I should attend? Learn how to save coding time [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Mobile apps at Intel booth during Mobile World Congress 2010

By Michael J Huelskoetter (70 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 9:46 am
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As I promised in my yesterday's blog post I'll talk about some of the mobile apps which will be shown next week at the Intel booth in hall 7, stand A49 (App Planet). And here are the nominees: JayCut by Jaycut gives MID users a complete video editor. This means you can capture, edit and publish [...]

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Category: Events, Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility

The academic community manager looks back at 2009

By Paul Steinberg (Intel) (14 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 9:43 am
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Hello, we've got some exciting new projects coming in 2010, but first, a review of the high points of 2009 seems in order. Last year the Academic Community really began to flourish; with our members active participation and leadership, we were able to really make an impact on advancing and expanding parallel programming curricula [...]

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Category: Academic

Linux and Commercial Software in the Cloud

By Dawn M. Foster (84 posts) on February 9, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Hurwitz and Associates just published a new white paper (sponsored by IBM) about how Linux and commercial software are being combined for use in the Cloud (PDF link). I've done quite a few posts over the past few months on cloud computing and related topics, like virtualization, and this paper reaffirms much of what we've [...]

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Category: Open Source

MSDN Subscriber Downloads - Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

By Doug Holland (Intel) (245 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 4:45 pm
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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is now available on MSDN subscriber downloads and includes the following elements of the forthcoming release. .NET Framework 4 Client Profile RC (x86 and x64) - (English) .NET Framework 4 Client Profile RC (x86) - (English) .NET Framework 4 Full RC (x86 and ia64) - (English) .NET Framework 4 Full RC (x86 and x64) [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

n-bodies: a parallel TBB solution: parallel code: first runs

By Robert Reed (Intel) (26 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 3:23 pm
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After getting lost in the twisty passages of compiler inter-procedural optimization, Robert returns to the simple path and shows a practical example of why it's important to optimize your serial code before parallelizing it.

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Category: Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks

My Netbook Journey – Life in Eden with my Atom

By Darla Worden (Intel) (1 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 2:21 pm
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I am NOT an engineer. I am an admin to engineers and, more importantly, I am an end user. I am the one who benefits from all the hard work Intel (and other) engineers and developers do. My life, both at work and at home has been enormously improved by the hard work [...]

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Category: Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0

Video on Optimizing MID Performance With VTune Performance Analyzer

By Jon Bullinger (Intel) (35 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 1:43 pm
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Performance analysis helps ensure your MID application takes full advantage of the Atom processor and runs fast. Watch this short video where Robert Mueller Albrecht describes key features of Intel's VTune Performance Analyzer and walks thru the MID installation process. Watch the video Enroll in Intel Software Partner Program today and learn how the program can [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Intel® AMT FW Versions – Poll Results

By RB (Intel) (1 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 11:22 am
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In an effort to get a better idea of the Intel® AMT environments developers find themselves in we recently had a poll up querying for the earliest firmware version being supported. The results were… While the sample space is small, it is clear any communications we have with our community must still consider all versions [...]

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Category: Manageability

Apple iPad and Innovation in Open Source

By Dawn M. Foster (84 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 9:25 am
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The recent Apple iPad announcement has been all over the news in the past week, and people are speculating about how certain features will be implemented and speculating about how the competition will respond. In general, "open alternatives will continue to serve as competition and counterbalance to closed technology and strategy," according to Jay Lyman, an [...]

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Category: Open Source

Intel shows netbook apps and more at Mobile World Congress

By Michael J Huelskoetter (70 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 7:37 am
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Honestly, it's my first time going to Mobile World Congress (MWC) which takes place in wonderful Barcelona, Spain, Europe. So I'm quite excited what will happen there and what this huge event will look like. What I do know already: I'm going there with Intel in order to video blog about all the cool things which [...]

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Category: Events, Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility

Musing and Reflecting on CES 2010

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (13 posts) on February 7, 2010 at 10:34 pm
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Hard to believe that CES was already a month ago. Since then the iPad has been officially announced and the New Orleans Saints have won a Super Bowl! However; I’m still trying to digest everything I saw and ponder over the gadgets and trends that stood out the most for me. So while most of [...]

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Category: Gaming, Media, Mobility, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Is Time Travel Possible With The Right SDK?

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (11 posts) on February 5, 2010 at 2:28 pm
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You might recall the 80's film series Back to The Future, where Marty McFly uses a time machine to to go back and forward in time. That machine was driven by a fictional piece of technology called the Flux Capacitor, which made it possible for Marty to set a time in the past or future [...]

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Category: Media, Visual Computing

Mesh Information Distribution & Security

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (120 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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I just posted the second of a series of tutorial videos on my mesh networking project. In this video I talk about information distribution and security. Basically, if you have many nodes on a network, how can you get information about all of the other nodes by talking to only a few? Signed node information [...]

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Category: Open Source, What If Software
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