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Posted September 30th 20090
Event based sampling uses counters on the Intel processors to detect what your software is doing. This is helpful for tuning and improving software performance. Typical hotspot analysis shows you where your software spends most of the execution time, but event based sampling allows you to see not ...
Posted June 4th 20090
We created a new one day course on parallelism and threading. This is a great opportunity to learn about threading software for multi-core platforms. This course is targeted for Windows* C++ developers using Microsoft Visual Studio* 2005 or 2008. If you are in that category keep reading!
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Posted February 23rd 20095
I hope you are all enjoying the new Intel® Core™i7 platforms. Most people are very pleased with the performance of these new platforms. I hope all of you software developers are regular VTune Analyzers users too (but I know not all of you are). One of the great advantages of VTune Analyzer’s ...
Posted November 17th 20081
We have often stated the three main points of parallelism are: Correctness, Scalability, and Maintainability. We are working to provide better tools to improve all three aspects of software development. The other month I wrote about Intel Threading Building Blocks which helps provide an ...
Posted September 19th 20083
In my first blog that I said I would blog mostly about threading and performance. This time I am writing about TBB or Intel® Threading Building Blocks. But let me begin by discussing the multi-core transition. Several years ago Intel began shifting to multi-core platforms. This was a shift for ...
Posted August 11th 20080
Performance, Analysis, Threading and Intel Developer Forum - What do all these have in common? Keep reading and I will answer this in my blog.
First let me introduce myself. I joined Intel back in 1992. In my years at Intel I have always been interested in parallel programming and parallel ...