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New article: A Data-parallel Virtual Machine

By Stefanus Du Toit (Intel) (11 posts) on November 25, 2009 at 8:58 am
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I'm one of the people who recently joined Intel from RapidMind. Together with the rest of the formerly-RapidMind team I am working on a product based on Ct Technology and our RapidMind development platform. It's been an exciting three months so far, and we already feel very much at home at Intel. If you'd like [...]

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Category: Parallel Programming

Interview: Allen Kay, Software Engineer

By Dawn M. Foster (55 posts) on November 25, 2009 at 8:06 am
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Allen Kay has been involved with the Xen virtualization project since 2006. His main area of focus is on VT-d PCI passthrough for unmodified guest domains. His prior operating systems work include enabling of 64-bit Windows OS on Intel Itanium processor and Unix SVR4 on Intel i860 processor. He has also worked on Intel's VTune [...]

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Category: Open Source, Virtualization

Event: Multi-threading Workshop in Stockholm Nov 26th

By Gladys Viray (Intel) (4 posts) on November 24, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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Participate in a full-day seminar about writing bug free and performance optimized parallel (threaded) applications. You will get an in-depth technical overview on concepts about writing parallel apps. The seminar will also show you how the latest Software Development Tools from Intel and Micorsoft will help in this process. This event is organized together with [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Uber-Modeler, Son Kim

By Steve Pitzel (Intel) (32 posts) on November 24, 2009 at 9:55 am
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Son Kim, an extremely talented modeler and the winner of Project Offset's first user created content contest.  Using concept art created by the wizards of Offset, Son Kim made the Bugback Toad come to life. MODO is Son's modeling weapon of choice - and, if you weren't online Nov 10 [...]

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Category: Art, Music, & Animation, Visual Computing

Open Source Cloud Predictions for 2010

By Dawn M. Foster (55 posts) on November 24, 2009 at 8:06 am
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As we move into the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, people start thinking about wrapping up the current year and looking forward to what next year might have in store for us. A few of the open source industry analysts and other industry experts have started to post their predictions for 2010, and [...]

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Category: Open Source

White Rabbits

By jimdempseyatthecove (3 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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The realities of parallel programming as illustrated by a fictional character.

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Category: Parallel Programming

Be careful when working with atomic directive

By Andrey Karpov (17 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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I would like to tell you about an error that a person not familiar with OpenMP technology too well can easily make. The error is related to a wrong supposition about how atomic directive works.

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Category: Parallel Programming

Issues of 64-bit code in real programs: virtual functions

By Andrey Karpov (17 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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So, if you download the demo-version of this library, install it and search the word "WinHelp" through .h-files… you will see that everywhere this function is supposedly overlapped, DWORD parameter is used instead of DWORD_PTR. And this means that Help system in these classes will behave incorrectly on a 64-bit system.

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Category: Software Engineering

Succeed with Multi-core and You Could Win a $5,000 Co-Marketing Campaign

By Lilian K.K. (Intel) (12 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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Parallel processing is the new standard, and your software needs to be multi-threaded to take advantage of it. Threading your applications to utilize multi-core technology enables everything from better multitasking solutions to improved performance. What's more, if you optimize before the end of the year, you'll get a chance to succeed in a competition that [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Interview: Daniel Valfré, Open Source in Latin America

By Dawn M. Foster (55 posts) on November 23, 2009 at 11:06 am
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Daniel Valfré has been involved with open source since 1997, actively participating in the local Linux User Group in Córdoba, Argentina from its creation in 1999, working on a local NGO on different projects involving philosophy and technical promotion of open source, and also teaching courses about operating systems and programming, all with [...]

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Category: Mobility, Open Source
 
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