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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) (34 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 (83 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

I'd read this blog post, but I have a life

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (134 posts) on February 8, 2010 at 8:22 am
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 Here's another pet peeve of mine: lazy people and the media reports/commercials that use them to promote their point/product. I'm not down on the mrechandise (all fine products, I'm sure), just the messaging used. If you don't mind the cranky rantings of someone approaching the half-century mark, please read on. One example is the pain reliever commercial that starts [...]

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Category: Uncategorized

Intel shows netbook apps and more at Mobile World Congress

By Michael J Huelskoetter (69 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

Free Webinar: "Intel's Software Assessment Tools" 2/10/10 9amPT

By Amanda Marvel (Intel) (21 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 4:34 pm
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Is your software optimized to run on Intel architecture? Do you know if there are any tweaks that can be made to make the user experience even better for your customers? Intel Software Assessment Tools allow you to easily assess your code on Intel Graphics and multi-core, and in this webinar you'll learn all about the [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized

Intel® vPro™ 2010: New feature - Intel ME WMI Provider

By Andrew Schiestl (Intel) (3 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 3:36 pm
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One of the additions in the new vPro systems (with AMT 6.0) is a built-in WMI provider that provides access to some AMT functionality through Windows and WMI, even if AMT hasn't been provisioned on the system yet.  This provider is part of the default installed vPro drivers and software that should be part of every vPro system.  [...]

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Category: Manageability

Welcome to Intel® AMT 6.0

By Lance Atencio (Intel) (17 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 12:28 pm
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The buzz started at the Intel Developer Forum last year and continues today with the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor business event. I highly encourage you to take a look at the information available in the latest event. Along with the launch of the new vPro comes the long awaited 6.0 version of Active [...]

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Category: Manageability

Accenture's Take on the Benefits of Open Source Software

By Dawn M. Foster (83 posts) on February 4, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Accenture recently released a report about accelerating the benefits of open source software, and here are a few quotes that I found particularly interesting: An Accenture study showed that in 2008, "77 percent of high-performance IT organizations are now piloting or committing to open source, compared to just 37 percent of overall global businesses." "Particularly true in [...]

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Category: Open Source
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