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The Last Show - Parallel Programming Talk #130 - Parallel Manifold with Jim Dempsey
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on December 14, 2011 at 11:43 am
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It was sad when "Friends" ended, and who can forget the endings of "MASH" and "Jerry Seinfeld"? So it goes with ISN's "Parallel Programming Talk" show. Our last show was a fitting end to 130 radio and Web TV programs about all things Parallel. It wasn’t a “montage” or “retrospective” show but simply a great [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Jim Dempsey, Kathy Farrel, Parallel Manifold, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Intel® Concurrent Collections with Intel Scientist Kath Knobe - Parallel Programming Talk #129
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm
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Intel Labs Scientist Kath Knobe spent some time with Clay Breshears and Kathy Farrel on Parallel Programming Talk to talk about what's new with Intel® Concurrent Collections, a programming language and software framework developed by Intel to express parallelism in applications. Here is the video - at the bottom of this blog you will see topics discussed [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: CnC, Concurrent Collections, Haskell, Kath Knobe, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
News from Dr. Fortran - Intel's Steve Lionel Discusses Newly Released Fortran Studio XE 2011 - Parallel Programming Talk #128
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 11, 2011 at 8:20 pm
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Dr. Fortran (aka Intel's Steve Lionel), who is a friend of this show, dropped in on Clay and Kathy to discuss what we think is good news - the release of Fortran Studio XE 2011. Below the video are some notes and links that I think you will find useful. http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/channel/parallel-programming/parallel-programming-talk-128-steve-lionel/1247156004001 It’s time for Parallel [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Fortran Studio XE, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Steve Lionel
Vector Fabrics Founder and CEO Paul Stravers Discusses and Demos vfEmbedded - PPT #127
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 11, 2011 at 3:37 pm
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It’s time for Parallel Programming Talk – this is show #127 Below are some script details including questions we asked Paul. News 1. The Guide for Developing Multithreaded Applications has been updated. Changes include: 1-8 - Using AVX Without Writing AVX Code - New 3-5 - Optimizing Applications for NUMA - New 4-4 - Using [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Paul Stravers, Vector Fabrics, vfEmbeded
“Pilot” C Library with University of Guelph's Dr. William Gardner - PPT #126
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 9, 2011 at 6:41 pm
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Kathy and Clay met with University of Guelf's Dr. William Gardner about "Pilot" - "A new method of programming HPC clusters that leverages standard MPI while being easier for novice users to understand and utilize." Following the video is somewhat of a script used for producing the show (courtesy Clay and Kathy). The News 1. [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Bill Gardner, Dr. William Gardner, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Pilot C Library, University of Guelf
A Lively Discussion with Community Black Belt Developer Gaston Hillar at IDF 2011 - PPT #125
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 9, 2011 at 12:26 pm
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We usually interview ISN Black Belt Developer, and well-known author Gaston Hillar at IDF and this year was no exception. In this show Gaston shares his enthusiasm about new Intel products including CPUs (especially Intel Atom), Developer Tools and a bigger empasis on the quality of the user experience. Download Link - High Quality MP4 Video File [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: gaston hillar, Parallel C#, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
New Tools for HPC Developers - Intel® Cluster Studio XE Released this Week!
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 9, 2011 at 12:02 pm
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In case you haven't heard - the hard-working tools team has released Intel® Cluster Studio XE, a gaggle of developer tools designed expressly for High Performance Computing developers. After reading James Reinders' blog on the Subject - "Ready for 2X Moore's Law: Intel Cluster Studio XE," I understand that there are two cool capabilities that [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: hybrid programming, Intel Cluster Studio XE, Intel Inspector XE, Intel VTune Amplifier XE, parallel programming
Parallel Programming Talk 124 - IDF: Pervasive Software
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 13, 2011 at 3:32 pm
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Tags: ParallelProgrammingTalk
Critical Blue's "Prism" with Skip Hovsmith and Sergio Quintinar at IDF 2011 - Parallel Programming Talk #123
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 10, 2011 at 1:35 pm
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At IDF With New Parallel Programming Black Belt Noah Clemons - Parallel Programming Talk #122
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 5, 2011 at 10:51 am
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Clay Breshears and I met up with Intel Software Customer Quality Engineer Noah Clemons - our community's newest Black Belt Developer, at the 2011 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. He told us about his IDF activities - lots of presentations and a lab, and shared his feelings about becoming an Intel Software Network Black Belt Developer. [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, Noah Clemons, Parallel Developer Tools, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
So Glad IDF Doesn't Start 'Til Tuesday
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on September 10, 2011 at 10:11 pm
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As I sit at home on the Saturday night before the Intel Developer Forum 2011 I am still checking off lists - what to pack (a major list), making sure I've got complete notes for the 11 Videos that Dr. Clay Breshears and I will make for the community (of course our fine videographer Jerry [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Flow Graph Feature in TBB 4.0 with Michael Voss - Parallel Programming Talk #121
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on September 10, 2011 at 4:38 pm
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It’s time for Parallel Programming Talk This is show #121– Clay and I will be talking with Intel Software Architect Mike Voss But first the news: The News There is now an open source implementation of Cilk(TM) Plus based on gcc 4.7. Can you explain why this is good news? Information on how to contribute is [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Software Tools
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, MIke Voss, ParallelProgrammingTalk, TBB, Threading Building Blocks
ParaSail - A New Programming Language - Parallel Programming Talk #120
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on August 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm
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Welcome to another edition of Parallel Programming Talk. This is show #120. Today’s guest is Tucker Taft from the Sofcheck Company – we’ll be talking with him shortly about a new programming language he has created. But first, What is Clay Thinking About? An interesting discussion about human memory - based on the question [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, parallel programming, parallelism, ParallelProgrammingTalk, ParaSail, Programming Language Design, Programming Languages, SofChek, Tucker Taft
Kathy Yelick, NERSC Director Talks about Petascale Computing - Parallel Programming Talk #119
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on August 10, 2011 at 2:12 pm
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Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Exascale, Hopper, hpc, Kathy Farrel, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, NERSC, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Petascale
New Petascale Debugger with Allinea Software's David Lecomber - Parallel Programming Talk Show 118
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 29, 2011 at 4:43 pm
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It’s time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk #118– Clay and I will be talking to our guest David Lecomber from Allinea Software in a few minutes. But first – The News The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) will offer a hands-on courses for graduate students this summer: Proven Algorithmic Techniques [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Allinea Software, David Lecomber, DDT, Debugger, Dr, Dr. Clay Breshears, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Petascale
Discussing Intel's OpenCL With Technical Lead Yariv Aridor - Parallel Programming Talk #117
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 27, 2011 at 3:14 pm
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Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – This is show #117. We’ll be talking with Intel’s OpenCL Technical Lead Yariv Aridor What is Clay thinking about today? Voice Recognition Systems - Watch the video to hear what Clay had to say on the subject. The News The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Allinea Software, David Lecomber, debugging, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Petascale
Listener Question Show on the Intel Manycore Testing Lab with Jeff Gallagher – Parallel Programming Talk #116
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 15, 2011 at 1:02 pm
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Clay hosted this show solo since Kathy was ill. Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – This is show #116. We’ve got a Listener Question Show today and our guest is Jeff Gallagher. I’ll be talking with him in a few minutes. But first, the News The 24th International Workshop on Languages and [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, hpc, Intel Many Core Testing Lab, Jeff Gallagher, MTL, multi-core, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Baker's Dozen of Technical Papers and Blogs Published on Parallel Programming Community
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 1, 2011 at 10:27 am
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There has been a significant flurry of activity in the Parallel Programming Community. Lots of new reading material in the past two weeks alone, not to mention the Gold version of OpenCL has been released. Download the SDK. More assorted technical papers on OpenCL from Intel Engineer Arnon Peleg and others on his team: Intel® [...]
Category: Academic, Open Source, Parallel Programming
Tags: "Intel OpenCL", Arnon Peleg, Open Source, parallel programming, parallelism, Visual Computing
Dr. David Padua - "Ecyclopedia of Parallel Programming" Parallel Programming Talk 115
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 1, 2011 at 9:37 am
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Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – This is show #115. Dr. David Padua is here to discuss his new book. News The 24th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Programming (LCPC) – will take placeColorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado on September 8-10, 2011 - Third Annual Workshop on Concurrent [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: David Padua, Dr. Clay Breshears, Encyclopedia of Parallel Programming, Kathy Farrel, parallel programming, Parallel Programming Books, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Siebel Center for Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussion of "Using AVX Without Writing AVX" with Intel's Rich Hubbard - Parallel Programming Talk Show 114
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 24, 2011 at 11:01 am
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Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – This is show #114. Intel Software Engineer Rich Hubbard is here to talk about AVX. What is Clay Thinking About? Segment Kathy: The International Supercomputing Conference was held this week and that is where the summer version of the Top500 list is revealed. Clay, have [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Advanced Vector Extensions, AVX, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Richard Hubbard
Problem 1 Threading Challenge Winners Announced
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 22, 2011 at 9:11 am
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Exciting News! The Winners of Master and Apprentice Problem 1 of the Threading Challenge 2011 have been announced: Threading Challenge 2011 Winners Page. 16 Master-level participants and 28 Apprentice-level participants submitted their code entries for a total of 44 participants for problem 1. See how the entries were judged for Master Problem - Masyu Puzzle and [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: contest, parallel programming, threading, Threading Challenge 2011
All about NUMA with Intel Sr. SW Engineer David Ott - Parallel Programming Talk Show #113
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 16, 2011 at 2:49 pm
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Welcome to Parallel Programming Talk Show #113 –Intel Senior Software Engineer David Ott is here to talk about NUMA and we will introduce him in a few minutes. Don’t forget – if you have comments, questions, suggestions send them to parallelprogrammingtalk@intel.com Here’s the news: First up = DON’T FORGET THE THREADING CHALLENGE! http://software.intel.com/en-us/contests/intel-threading-challenge-2011/contests.php New Problems [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
ISN Parallel Programming Community's Newest Black Belt - Dr. Nagaraja Shamsundar - Parallel Programming Talk #112
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm
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Clay and Kathy first discussed security issues iterated on this blog: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/cheap-gpus-are-rendering-strong-passwords-useless/13125?tag=nl.e539 Don’t forget – if you have comments, questions, suggestions send them to parallelprogrammingtalk@intel.com Welcome to Parallel Programming Talk Show #112 – we’ve got a very special guest – the latest ISN Parallel Programming Community Black Belt is here and we will introduce him [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Dr. Nagaraja (Sham) Shamsundar, ISN Black Belt Program, Kathy Farrel, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Tim Mattson Guests on Parallel Programming Talk #111
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 3, 2011 at 2:37 pm
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Show Notes Greetings and welcome to another fine episode of Parallel Programming Talk. #111 to be exact. At this point Clay interrupted Kathy and showed off his powers of telepathy - you'll need to watch the show to see and be amazed yourself! Just a couple of weeks ago I said I was looking for [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Exascale, Future of Multicore, Intel Laboratories, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Research at Intel, Terascale, Tim Mattson
Research Scientist Victor Eijkhout Guests on Parallel Programming Talk #110
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on May 21, 2011 at 8:39 pm
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Welcome to another episode of Parallel Programming Talk this is show #110 – Research Scientist Victor Eijkhout is here to talk about his new book “Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing” and we’ll be introducing him in a few minutes. But first the news: First of all we want to congratulate Prof. Albert Zomaya (University of [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: C Programming, Dr. Clay Breshears, Fortran, High Performance Scientific Computing, Kathy Farrel, optimization, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Victor Eijkhout
Doug Lea - Parallel Java - Parallel Programming Talk #109
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on May 13, 2011 at 8:37 pm
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Welcome to another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – show #109. We've got a very special guest - Doug Lea is here and we'll bring him on in a few minutes Reminder of Show Schedule – used to be every week at 9Pacific – now we do two shows every other Tuesday morning, at 9 [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Doug Lea, Kathy Farrel, Parallel Java, ParallelProgrammingTalk
"Emulating an OpenMP parallel for with TBB" Parallel Programming Talk Show #108 - Listener/User Question Show
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on May 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm
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Welcome to another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – show #108 This is a Listener Question Show – discussion on a very lively discussion on a recent thread in our community Forum, we’ll start the discussion in a few minutes. Show Schedule: A new, on-demand PPT show is released every Friday – URL is [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: ParallelProgrammingTalk, TBB
Intel Tool News: ArBB Beta 5 Includes Amplifier Integration - Parallel Programming Talk #107
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 29, 2011 at 8:10 pm
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Welcome to another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – show #107 – Guests: Intel Principal Engineer Michael McCool shared Intel Tool news, and Jeff Kataoka dropped by to discuss the latest info on Threading Challenge 2011. Show Schedule: A new, on-demand PPT show is released every Friday – http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/parallel-programming-talk/ ISN TV produces several other shows: Teach Parallel – [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Amplifier, ArBB, Array Building Blocks, Dr. Clay Breshears, Jeff Kataoka, Kathy Farrel, Michael McCool, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Threading Challenge 2011
We're Dancing as Fast as We Can - So Much New Must-Read Content
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 29, 2011 at 7:34 pm
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There is so much new good stuff on this community that I can't quite keep up. What, with the launching of yet another Threading Challenge last week and nearly a dozen new blogs and articles in these last few weeks - can't believe it's almost May. Let me direct you to some recent clever and informative [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Cilk Plus, Dr. Clay Breshears, Intel Parallel Building Blocks, Intel PBB, Kathy Farrel, Noah Clemons
Parallel Programming Talk #106 - Roni Simonian - New Threaded Debugging Tool - "Maze"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 22, 2011 at 3:37 pm
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Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – show #106 – our guest today is Roni Simonian, creator of a cool software tool called Maze – we’ll be talking with her a little later. I think I should remind you of our schedule. We film/stream two live shows, one at 9am and one at 10am Pacific [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Bug Resolution, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, Maze, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Roni Simonian, Traceability
And They're Off!!! - Intel Threading Challenge 2011 Started Today - Bigger Prizes this Year
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 18, 2011 at 9:01 pm
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It's begun! The first two (one each of Apprentice and Master Level) problems hit the Threading Challenge Web site at noon today. Now you've got three weeks to formulate and submit your solutions. This will be followed by two more problem sets with three-week submission windows also. You can check out the contest rules and (my [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: IDF 2011, Master level, Threading Challenge 2011
Parallel Programming Talk Show #105 - Intel Product Marketing Engineer Don Gunning - Current Challenges of Cluster Computing
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 16, 2011 at 9:57 am
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Time for another episode of Parallel Programming Talk – show #105. Guest: Don Gunning, Parallel Programming Tool Guru for Intel to discuss current challenges of cluster computing, Intel software/tool solutions to those challenges, and what’s in store for future versions of the tools. Show Notes New Show Schedule: A new on-demand show every Friday @http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/parallel-programming-talk/ Don’t forget [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Distributed Memory, Don Gunning, Dr. Clay Breshears, hpc, Kathy Farrel, Parallel Programming Tools, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Parallel Programming Talk #104 - Dr. Peter Pacheco discusses new book: "Introduction to Parallel Programming"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 31, 2011 at 3:23 pm
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Hi – it’s Tuesday, March 29 and this is show #104. Dr. Peter Pacheco is here with us this morning and we'll be discussing his new book “Introduction to Parallel Programming” But as usual, we’ve got a little news to share first: If you haven’t heard about it, The Intel Concurrency Checker is a free software [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, introduction to parallel programming, Kathy Farrel, MPI Standard, Parallel Neurosys, Parallel Programming with MPI, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Peter Pacheco, University of San Francisco
Parallel Programming Talk #103 - Dr. Martin Margala and Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede - High-throughput DCT Algorithm, Using more than 1000 Processors
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 31, 2011 at 3:05 pm
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Hi – it’s Tuesday, March 29 and this is show #103. We’ve been away for nearly a month as the film crew has been galivanting all over the place – from Barcelona to San Francisco. Bet they’re glad to be back in the Studio. I know I’m glad – we can return to the routine!……… [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: ParallelProgrammingTalk
This Community Manager's First Meetup
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm
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It's 2pm and doors open in an hour for our Bay Area Parallel Programming Community Meetup here in Santa Clara. The weather today is interesting and I am axious to see who braves the very rainy weather to join us. We are here to learn what the 2nd Generation Intel Core Processor Family means to the [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family, Amanda Marvel, Dale Schouten, Diana Byrne, Jeff Kataoka, Kathy Farrel, Kittur Ganesh, MBA Sciences, meetup, Noah Clemons, parallel programming, Rich Hubbard, Sandy Bridge
A Meetup for Bay Area Parallel/Multicore Programmers 3/24/11
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 8, 2011 at 3:21 pm
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You are invited to attend the first Intel® Parallel Programming MeetUp at Intel HQ in Santa Clara, CA on Thursday, March 24. Register now to attend.The Parallel Programming MeetUp is for software developers in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about Intel’s 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family (Codename Sandy Bridge), and [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family, Intel AVX, meetup, parallel programming, Sandy Bridge
Parallel Programming Talk #101 - Intel's Paul Petersen Discusses Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm
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Hear about the cool tool that helps programmers find the best places to inject parallelism into their code.
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Paul Petersen
Did you say Virtual Colonoscopy? - Parallel Programming Talk #102 with Intel's Bevin Brett
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 9, 2011 at 6:21 pm
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How Intel Parallel Advisor is enabling the Medical World. Can you say "Virtual Colonoscopy"? Bevin discusses an actual application of Parallel Advisor and the part it is playing in reducing the time, cost and discomfort of an important medical test. A test that many shy away from – and as a result many miss early detection of cancer.
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Bevin Brett, Clay Breshears, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, parallelism, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Parallel Programming Talk #100 - From "Is this thing on?" to “Taming the Wild order of Synchronizations” - 100 Shows - a Retrospective
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 5, 2011 at 11:31 am
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PPT marks its 100th episode by taking some time to celebrate and look back to discuss beginnings and how far it’s come since then.
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Aaron Tersteeg, Arti Gupta, Dr. Clay Breshears, gaston hillar, Kathy Farrel, Michael McCool, Michael Wrinn, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Paul Steinberg, Tim Mattson
Parallel Programming Talk #99 "Taming the Wild Order of Synchronizations" with YY Zhou
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 5, 2011 at 11:25 am
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It’s Tuesday, January 25, 2011 and this is Parallel Programming Talk The News: Casual Connect (Casual Games industry)- Feb 10 – 12 Congress Center, Hamburg, Germany - for casual game developers… Learn more: http://europe.casualconnect.org/ Well OOOOOle, Mobile World Congress Feb 14 – 17 2011 Barcelona, Spain - http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ Game Developers Conference - Feb 28 – [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, parallel programming, ParallelProgrammingTalk, synchronization, Taming the Wild Order of Synchronizations, YY Zhou
Parallel Programmaing Talk Show #98 - A Visit with Dr. Fortran, Steve Lionel Discusses Coarrays in Fortran
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 4, 2011 at 9:41 pm
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Show Notes: It’s Tuesday, January 18, 2011 and this is Parallel Programming Talk #98 We are very lucky today to have the Intel Software Network’s first Black Belt, Steve Lionel with us to discuss Co-arrays but first, the news: New, interactive tool helps Java developers write safe, parallel programs. Computer science researchers at the University [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Steve Lionel
Parallel Programming Talk #97 - Viewer Q and A
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on February 4, 2011 at 8:57 pm
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Show notes: It’s Tuesday, January 11, 2011 and this is Parallel Programming Talk #97– We haven’t had a listener question show in a while so today’s the Day! Good morning Clay – it’s a new year and a new show. But first the news: New, interactive tool helps Java developers write safe, parallel programs. Computer [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Parallel Programming Talk SC10 Special 2 - Intel's Sanjiv Shah - "What's New with vTune?"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on December 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
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Intel Director of Parallel Software & Tools, Sanjiv Shah, took time from his busy schedule at SC10 in New Orleans to meet with Clay Breshears and I for a Parallel Proramming Talk Special Presentation. The subject was vTune and how it related to the recently released Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2011 We discussed the fact [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: ParallelProgrammingTalk
Parallel Programming Talk Special 1-MBA Sciences CEO Minesh Amin Discusses "Making Python Parallel" at SC10 in New Orleans
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on December 9, 2010 at 4:57 pm
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Clay Breshears and I had the good fortune to spend some time with MBA Sciences CEO Minesh Amin, at SC10 a few weeks ago. Amin's company developed SPM.Python, a scalable parallel version of the serial Python language, to help developers add parallelism to Python-based serial scripts and applications. It provides parallel constructs designed to logically build [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, MBA Sciences, Minesh Amin, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Python
Parallel Programming Talk #95 Bijoy Jose - Multi-threading for Higher Utilization of Worker Threads in an MPEG Encoder (Halloween Show)
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 26, 2010 at 12:24 pm
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You'll note that Clay and Kathy are in unusual garb here - we had fun on this Halloween Show! Don’t forget – if you have comments, questions, suggestions send them to parallelprogrammingtalk@intel.com It’s Tuesday, October 26, 2010 and this is Parallel Programming Talk #95 – Clay and I will be talking with Bijoy Jose about [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Bijoy Jose, Dr. Clay Breshears, Higher Utilization of Worker Threads in an MPEG Encoder, Kathy Farrel, MPEG, MPEG Encoder, ParallelProgrammingTalk
Parallel Programming Talk #93 Peter Godman of Corensic Inc. Discusses his Company's Product "Jinx"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 21, 2010 at 8:07 pm
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Clay and I sat down with Peter at IDF last month - to talk about "Jinx," software which takes advantage of Intel® Virtualization Technology, and aids in the discovery of especially hard-to-find bugs, saving time and money in the SW Development Life Cycle. You can read more about Corensic and Jinx in the links below. About [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Clay Breshears, Intel® Virtualization Technology, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk, Software Development Life Cycle
Parallel Programming Talk #94 Jiaping Zhang - Sungard
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 13, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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Welcome to Parallel Programming Talk #94. Today is October 12th and we're talking about Financial Software for Banking with Jiaping Zhang from Sungard The news: First – a shout out to Amanda Foor – Happy Birthday! Clay discussed current state of the Threading Challenge Phase 2 - The third problem closed October 11 and the [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: ParallelProgrammingTalk
Blog and Show Notes from Parallel Programming Talk #92 - Intel Engineers Noah Clemons and CJ Lin Discuss Array Notations, Array Building Blocks
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 12, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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Kathy Farrel and Clay Breshears met with Noah and CJ on September 14 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Later that afternoon they gave a technical presentation: Efficient and Productive C++ Data Parallelism: Ct Technology and C/C++ Extensions for Array Notation and we were excited to have them drop by and give us [...]
Category: Performance and Optimization
Tags: Array Building Blocks, Array Notations, Dr. Clay Breshears, Kathy Farrel, ParallelProgrammingTalk
IDF 2010 Video Interview - Sean McManus and Lauren Bishop (Catalysis), SoftTalk Bloggers
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 11, 2010 at 12:40 pm
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Sean McManus and Lauren Bishop, Intel SoftTalk Bloggers met with Kathy Farrel and Dr. Clay Breshears to talk about what they found exciting at the Forum.
Category: Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: Dr. Clay Breshears, gaston hillar, ISN TV, Jim Dempsey, Kathy Farrel, Lauren Bishop, Parallel Programming with C#, Sean McManus
Parallel Programming Talk #91: Lori Matassa and Max Domeika discuss new Intel Press Book "Break Away with Intel Atom Processors – A Guide to Architecture Migration"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on September 10, 2010 at 7:29 pm
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Welcome to Parallel Programming Talk #91. Today is September 7th, 2010 and we'll be talking with Intel Engineers Lori Matassa and Max Domeika. Download Link - MP3 Audio File (Small): Download Link - High Quality MP4 Video File (Large): First the News The Intel Threading Challenge Problem 2 started on August 30th and ends September 20th. [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: architecture migration, Atom Processor, Break Away with Intel Atom Processors – A Guide to Architecture Migration, Dr. Clay Breshears, embedded, Embedded and Communications Division, embedded debugging, idf, IDF2010, Kathy Farrel, Lori Matassa, max Domeika, multi-core, Multicore testing lab, ParallelProgrammingTalk, SC10
New technical paper: Getting High Performance on NUMA-based Nehalem-EX System Without Controlling NUMA Policy for Shared Memory, New Brashears Blog Discusses the Upcoming (Monday Aug 9) Launch of Part 2 of the Intel® Threading Challenge 2010
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on August 5, 2010 at 3:54 pm
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Learn how using a utility as numactll on that system under Linux, namely controlling NUMA policy for shared memory, improves performance dramatically by reading Getting High Performance on NUMA-based Nehalem-EX system with MKL Without Controlling NUMA Policy for Shared Memory by Intel's Michael Chuvelev. Clay Brashears has written a new blog entitled "Let the Parallel [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Brashears, Clay Breshears, Michael Chuvelev, MKL, Numa Policy for Shared Memory, Numa-based Nehalem-EX, Parallel Coding, Threading Challenge, Threading Challenge 2010, Threading Challenge Part 2
Part 2 of Jim Dempsey's Technical Paper Posted, Misc. Announcements
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on August 4, 2010 at 5:21 pm
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I want to take a few minutes to tell you about some happenings on the Parallel Programming Community. New high-quality reading is arriving almost daily. For example, Part 2 of ISN Black Belt Jim Dempsey's 5-part article "Superscalar Programming 101 (Matrix) " was just released today. Part 1 has been viewed a gazillion times already [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Tags: Cisco, Cisco Seminar, Claudio DeSanti, Jim Dempsey, Landon Curt Noll, PACT, Steven Fraser, Superscalar Programming 101, threading, Threading Challenge Part 2, UCS Platform, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
New ISN Parallel Programming Manager - Lots to Learn, Many Community Members to Meet
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on July 30, 2010 at 4:18 pm
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I am really happy about being the new ISN Parallel Programming Community Manager. (I had previously been in charge of the Manageability Community.) I've been spinning up, thanks to former community manager Aaron Tersteeg. I've been busy for the last month learning as much as I can about this different focus area: Multi-Core, and especially [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: Kathy Farrel, multi-core, Multicore Parallel Programming, parallel programming
New Intel Black Belt Software Developer Announced for the ISN Manageability Community - Javier Andres Caceres
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 22, 2010 at 4:12 pm
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I am very pleased to announce that one of our community members has just achieved Intel Black Belt Developer status! Our Community Member at Large, Javier Andres Caceres was recently nominated for this honor and received notification of his success just yesterday. This Aranda Software developer, who resides in Bogota Columbia, has been a significant [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Uncategorized
Tags: Community Member at Large, ISN Blackbelt Developer, Javier Andres Caceres Alvis, Javier Caceres
Have you Visited the Manageability Community Lately - Lots of New Content for You
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on June 14, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Have you visited us lately? Lots of new content showing up recently on the ISN Manageability Community. First of all, if you downloaded the Intel® AMT 6.0 SDK prior to May 24 (and it was first available about March 5, 2010), you will want to download the new version that eliminates a bug in [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Uncategorized
Tags: AES, AES-NI, Intel Active Management Technology, Intel® AES-NI, Intel® AMT KVM, Manageabililty
Lots of New Content Available this Week - Become a new Manageability Blogger and Receive a Free Book
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on April 19, 2010 at 3:05 pm
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Lots of new content has recently arrived on our Manageability Community - I'll tell you about that in a minute but first - there is a Webinar Tuesday, April 20 9-10am PST (hey, that's tomorrow!) that covers two new Software Assessment Tools - the one we're interested in is the new Intel® Manageability Checker. You [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions, AES-NI, Intel AMT, Intel AMT book Ylian, Intel Manageability checker, Kathy Farrel, Manageability, Manageability Community, security, Software Assessment Tools
Who are Your Trust Agents?
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 30, 2010 at 4:19 pm
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Have you read “Trust Agents” by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith? If not you might want to get a copy. If you are a social media practitioner in general or an online community manager specifically as I am, you already are one or you’re working very hard to become a Trust Agent. (Incidentally, Brogan and Smith [...]
Category: Academic, Graphics & Media, Manageability & Security
Tags: Cheryl Stewart-Miller, Facebook, Indiana, Kathy Farrel, Pennsylvania, relationship building, Renuka Awasthi, Social Media, social media pratitioner, Trust Agent, twitter
Intel® vPro™ Technology Virtual Seminar 2010
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 16, 2010 at 9:34 am
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Many thanks to those of you who tuned in to Intel® vPro™ Technology Virtual Seminar 2010, Getting to know Intel® Active Management Technology 6.0. We used a different format this time and as a result will shortly have about eight recordings, of the various sessions, available shortly for your viewing (or reviewing :-), as the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Manageability, vpro
Last Week's Virtual Event Successful!
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on March 10, 2010 at 10:12 pm
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Many thanks to those of you who tuned in to Intel® vPro™ Technology Virtual Seminar 2010, Getting to know Intel® Active Management Technology 6.0. We used a different format this time and as a result will shortly have about eight recordings, of the various sessions, available shortly for your viewing (or reviewing :-), as the [...]
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Who Moved My Page?
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on December 14, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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I think of the Internet as one eternal bulletin board. People keep posting things out on the board and often just walk away - at least I hope they do so my links/bookmarks always work. Yeah - right! There will always be content that is moved or deleted (with the owner never leaving any info [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: archive, Bookmarks, Library of Congress, Memento Project, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
Remote Management of PCs Easy With Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) - Read All About it in "Active Management Technology Demystified"
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on December 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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Since the days of IT personnel desk visits for computer repairs are long gone (once upon a time our department had a dedicated IT employee at our office location - those were the days!) you've probably had your PC fixed remotely. You're in front of your monitor, chatting with a technician whose window pops up [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Uncategorized
Tags: "Active Platform Management Demystified", active management technology, Diagnose PC, Intel AMT, Javier Caceres, Kathy Farrel, Manageability, PC Management, Remote Management
New video, Community Member at Large Chosen, Odds and Ends...
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on November 4, 2009 at 9:44 pm
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Our community has snagged some new high-quality stuff lately starting with Shmuel Gershon's dynamically entitled blog: "Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids". Shmuel is pretty knowledgeable about this new Intel® AMT™ feature, to be available on some 2010 platforms, and a big fan as well. I think we'll be hearing more from him [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Andy Schiestl, Community Member at Large, Intel AMT, Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids, REM SDK, Remote Encryption Management, Shmuel Gershon, Tim Duncan
New SDK, Articles, Site Changes for Manageability Community
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on October 15, 2009 at 8:28 pm
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Has a month gone by already? I thought it was time for another blog. I’m checking in to let you know what’s new and to tell you about some changes that are in progress for our Manageability Community. First, what’s new since I became your community manager? The Remote Encryption Management SDK was released at [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: "Active Platform Management Demystified", active management technology, AMT, Andy Schiestl, Arvind Kumar, Kathy Farrel, Manageability, Purushottam Goel, Tim Duncan, vpro, WS Management, Ylian Saint-Hilare
New Manageability Community Manager's First Blog
By Kathy Farrel (Intel) (63 posts) on September 14, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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Greetings, This is my first blog as Manageability Developer Community Manager for the Intel® Software Network. My team has been most welcoming and I am learning a lot. Many thanks to our previous community manager Ajay Mungara for the valuable information he has given me on Intel® Active Management Technology. The more I learn about [...]