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Tao B Wang (Intel)

Joining Intel in 2002, Tao is currently a platform analyst and lab manager for Intel Software College. Tao has been managing the course delivery for university faculty training, in America region for Intel. He has been delivering Multi-core and Parallel Programming course to hundreds of SW developers and university faculty members in many countries including United States, Mexico, Cost Rica, Argentina and Brazil. Currently,Tao has been creating and working on LMS for Intel academic community, and actively working on every details of the project. The meaning of his name "Tao" as described by greatest Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu is: Something infinite, older than heaven and earth, silent, solitary, and vast; eternal, unchanging, yet ever evolving throughout ten thousand things. Not knowing its name, he call it Tao

My Half Day at Supercomputing 09 at Portland Expo Center

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on November 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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As usual of this year at Portland metro, it is raining and windy this week. After watched the SC09 keynotes at Intel Software Network TV, I decided to utilize the pass I got from our Academic Community manager to go to SC09. Trimet MAX Light Rail is my best choice as it will drop me right [...]

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Category: Academic

Intel Academic Community Courseware Moodle, An Example of Use of Moodle for a Corporate LMS Platform

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Since my first blog on moodle topic published last April “Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law”, I have received many responses either by blog replies or emails. For those who asked me about moodle and did not get my response, I can only offer apologies as I am still a learner and have no [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on April 25, 2009 at 12:09 am
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In the current unprecedented global economic downturn, a community associated with a  learning management system ( LMS) called Moodle for global educators  is growing at an  exponential  rate. It is becoming extremely popular partially more so in this economy, but most likely because of its open source nature with high performance/cost ratio. The number of moodle sites [...]

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Category: Academic, Open Source, Social Media & Virtual Worlds

Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with Many “Parallel” Single Steps

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on March 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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It was a dark raining night at Atlanta International Airport in November, 2005. I have been roaming inside airport tunnel for hours while in transit. By midnight, gradually people were arriving at the gate area waiting for the final boarding call for United Airline's flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was my first international trip [...]

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Category: Academic

How is the Conflict Between Serialization and Parallelization in Version Control Resolved?

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on February 17, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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After spending some time looking around for a version control solution for a global team like the one we have, the open-source client Subversion with TortoiseSVN came to my attention, and I found it to be a robust, easy, and popular implementation of version control. Building an Apache 2 server on top of Windows* 2003 took [...]

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Category: Academic, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source, Software Engineering

Smoke Demo and Destroy the Castle on laptop- Multi-core and Parallel Programming Mobile Demo Platform ( 笔记本上做Smoke Demo 和摧毁城堡示范-多核和并行编程直观示范便携平台)

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on February 3, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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  If you want to give a killer-demo to the decision-maker of your organization with a strong visual impact, and be able to switch between single core and multi-core, serial and parallel codes during the demo, the best solution is Smoke and Destroy the Castle Demos. While you are also thinking that it seems not a [...]

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Category: Academic, Gaming, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Software Engineering, Visual Computing

Network Driver Build for Red Hat RHEL5U2 using Intel Wired Ethernet Project on SourceForge.net

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on January 19, 2009 at 11:49 am
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Recently, I received a Intel Nehalem server board upgrade that has Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet devices (52572) as onboard NIC for software development testing. When I installed Red Hat RHEL 5 Update 2, I found out that the Red Hat did not provide the drivefor the onboard NIC. On Red Hat Network Configuration utility, adding [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Open Source, Parallel Programming

Best known fixes and workaround for several dynamic library link errors found on running lab for Threading Game for Performance

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on January 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Recently, Course Materails for a one-day Threading Games for Performance workshop are available for academic community member to download (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/threading-games-for-performance). This mid-level workshop takes a sample game, Destroy the Castle, from serial to parallel over the course of one day. Strategies are considered for optimal threading of components such as physics, AI, and rendering. Tools are employed to [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Practical Lab: Build Game Technology Demo-Smoke on a rack mountable server

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on December 12, 2008 at 5:08 pm
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Smoke is a tech demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of game technologies and performance scaling with Cores. Smoke is a teaching tool to demonstrate the ability to create a framework that can scale to any number of threads. It allows the viewer to control the number of worker threads that can [...]

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Category: Academic, Gaming, Parallel Programming, Visual Computing