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Posts from Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) 
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Peter is a member of Intel's "Innovative Software Education" team based in Germany. |
Manycore Testing Lab: First Test Results!
By Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) (4 posts) on March 22, 2010 at 4:56 am
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A couple of weeks ago, the technical manager of our new Manycore Testing Lab (MTL) mentioned he had temporarily turned on HT (Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology) on one of the MTL “batch servers” for some tests that day. As it was Friday, I convinced him to leave it turned on for the weekend so I could [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Spreading the Word in Romainia
By Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) (4 posts) on October 26, 2009 at 1:46 am
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Teaching a class is a real pleasure when the participants are all fully engaged in the subject matter. Such was the case ealier this month when we assembled faculty members from University Polytechnica Bucharest (PUB), as well as 5 other universities around Romania to review our course materials on parallel programming. The event began with [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
A Sheriff’s Posse Beats Just One Ranger!
By Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) (4 posts) on August 4, 2009 at 12:34 am
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There is a management principle that seems to resurface concurrently with budget pressure. It was during a cost-cutting exercise (years ago) when I first heard the phrase: “One Riot, One Ranger!” The phrase must have originated when a manager (in a western movie?) noticed the sheriff’s posse was nothing but a gang of men on [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: parallel programming
Introducing the Computer: It's a Parallel Machine
By Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) (4 posts) on March 12, 2009 at 3:06 am
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Imagine the latest edition of a fairly basic textbook discussing the fundamentals of a discipline, perhaps not Computer Science, but some related subject. There is probably a chapter on automation with a nice basic block diagram of a computer, which looks like it hasn’t been updated since the 1980s. It depicts the system as composed [...]