Parallel Programming Talk #65 - Application Scaleability Testing with Intel's Chuck Piper and Diana Byrne

By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (151 posts) on March 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm

Welcome to Show 65 of Parallel Programming Talk. Originally broadcast on February 23, 2010. On this episode Clay and Aaron talked Application Scaleability Testing with Intel's Chuck Piper and Diana Byrne.

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On Today's Show:

Chuck Piper, Product Marketing Engineer, Intel Software Development Products

Diana Byrne, Product Manager for the Multi-core Technology Focus Area, in the Intel Software Partner Program

We all know that as Intel put more and more cores into their CPUs that application are going to have to scale. During this show Chuck and Diana discussed two new services that Intel is offering developer to test how well their applications scale across multiple cores.

The first is the Intel® Parallel Universe Portal. This tool analyzes your threaded applications to help you tune them. Developers upload their application, with related files and arguments needed to make it run, and the service returns scaling and concurrency efficiency info to help you get better performance and take better advantage of multi-core systems.

Intel® Parallel Universe Portal is an internet-based service that enables software developers to analyze their applications to see how they scale on multi-core computer systems. To use it, all you need is an Intel Software Developer Network account and an Internet browser (Internet Explorer*, Firefox*, Safari* or Chrome*).
The executable must be 32-bit C/C++, run on Windows XP* or Vista* and must be smaller than 20MB. If you depend on any libraries, you need to statically link them into your executable. It’s highly recommended that you build your application as a release build since a debug build may skew the results. When submitting a job for analysis, users can provide arguments required for proper application execution but the application must run without user-interaction. Learn more about the Intel® Parallel Universe Portal.

Use the Intel®  Software Assessment Tools to integrate technology-specific tools into your development process to analyze your application’s performance and capabilities. The results give developers the insights they need to help guide the ongoing work and keep them on the path to producing innovative software.

The Software Assessment Tool for Multi-core Processing assess the multi-core scalability of your applications and ensure that they are threaded and threads are running concurrently. You can analyze performance before and after you make changes to measure improvements. Learn more about the Intel®  Software Assessment Tools.

Coming up next on Parallel Programming Talk

Listener Question Show
Date/Time: 3/2/2010 at 8:00 AM Pacific - Watch Live on ISN TV

The Intel Guide for Developing Multithreaded Applications with Intel Engineer Henry Gabb
Date/Time: 3/9/2010 at 8:00 AM Pacific - Watch Live on ISN TV

Data Parallelism (Ct & RapidMind) with Intel Engineer Mike McCool
Date/Time: 3/16/2010 at 8:00 AM Pacific - Watch Live on ISN TV

Kolor Autopano Giga 2.0 with founder and CEO Alexandre Jenny
Date/Time: 3/23/2010 at 8:00 AM Pacific - Watch Live on ISN TV

Software demos of Intel Core i7-980X Processor (Gulftown) with Intel Engineer Darren Yee
Date/Time: 3/30/2010 at 8:00 AM Pacific - Watch Live on ISN TV

And remember, let's be thread safe out there.

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