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Posts in the "What If Software" Category 
Consumers deserve better than Proprietary Game Systems
By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (10 posts) on November 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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I’ve been immersed in the Gaming Industry now for nearly fifteen years. In that length of time I’ve played countless games on at least ten or more key gaming systems. (e.g. PC, Xbox/360, Wii, PS/2-3, NinDS, etc). I’ve attended well over sixty tradeshows and met with a few thousand great people representing well over three [...]
Category: Gaming, Media, Uncategorized, Visual Computing, What If Software
What’s the Advantage of Modeling Parallelism on my Serial Program with Parallel Advisor Lite?
By Jackson M (Intel) (3 posts) on October 29, 2009 at 10:34 am
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One of the most useful aspects of Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite is its ability to model parallelism in my application without actually running the code in parallel. Simply by doing this modeling it can tell me potential race conditions and correctness issues while still running everything serially. At first glance I ask myself “Why do [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
Installing Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite on Windows 7
By Gastón C. Hillar (11 posts) on October 7, 2009 at 8:54 am
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Many Windows developers stayed in Windows XP instead of upgrading their developer workstations to Windows Vista. Windows Vista introduced some compatibility problems when installing certain applications. Now, Windows 7 is round the corner and many developer workstations are going to move to this new Windows version. Windows 7 has many improvements over Vista. Nonetheless, it [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
Event Based Sampling - are you ready?
By David Mackay (Intel) (6 posts) on September 30, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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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 just what sections of your application take [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, Software Engineering, What If Software
Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite Update 1 Released
By Jackson M (Intel) (3 posts) on September 28, 2009 at 7:17 am
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The first Update for Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite (Advisor Lite) has been released and is available at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-intel-parallel-studio-advisor-lite/. Advisor Lite is a free technology preview that helps software developers model parallelism in their existing serial C/C++ applications. This update ensures that Advisor Lite works cleanly with Intel® Parallel Inspector Update 1, Intel® Parallel Amplifier Update [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
Finding Suitable Sites for Parallelism using Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite
By Jackson M (Intel) (3 posts) on September 8, 2009 at 12:53 pm
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As hardware trends away from faster clocks towards more cores per chip, software must adapt to take advantage of multi-core architectures. Performance gains will have to come from parallelizing applications instead of waiting for more cycles per second. Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite along with Intel® Parallel Studio lay out a multi-step process to aid developers [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
RT @sgershon: #PC Remote Control through #Twitter - soon with Intel AMT ? :)
By Shmuel Gershon (Intel) (21 posts) on September 4, 2009 at 6:33 am
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#TweetMyPC is an app by @shobankr that allows one to remotely control their computer by Twitter messages. (For the uninitiated, Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service, with ~10 million users). I'll not get into deep details about the application, but it does have many features (shutdown, restart, standby… even screenshot). While it doesn't have a huge [...]
Category: Cool Software, Manageability, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Software Engineering, What If Software
How to model parallelism with Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite
By Caroline D (Intel) (3 posts) on August 19, 2009 at 5:45 am
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Did you know that Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite offers you the ability to prototype (model) parallelism in your serial application? It lets you scope the effort of parallelizing your application while continuing to use your existing test system and debugging tools as you make source modifications to avoid data sharing issues. To model potential parallelism, you [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
New Draft Specification of Transactional Language Constructs for C++
By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (118 posts) on August 6, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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We are happy to release the first version of the Draft Specification of Transactional Language Constructs for C++. This specification is the result of a joint work by a group of people from Intel, IBM and Sun, and is based on our experience working with transactional language constructs. We would like to encourage people to [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
How the Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive will shape our Industry
By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (10 posts) on August 1, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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What I’m going to cover here certainly isn’t new or revolutionary thinking by any stretch of the imagination. This particular blog is going to be some of my observations about hard drives, what the past ten years have looked like, where we are today, and what might the next decade hold in store? I’ll of [...]
Category: Gaming, Mobility, Uncategorized, Visual Computing, What If Software
A Parallel Modeler for Serial Applications
By Caroline D (Intel) (3 posts) on July 28, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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You need to add parallelism to your application... Where do you start? How do you determine that adding parallelism and working through data sharing problems is worth the effort? If you have ever parallelized a serial program, you know how tricky it can be to answer these questions! With the move to multi-core processors, [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
Sell your netbook apps on the Intel® Business Exchange Software Store
By Amanda Marvel (Intel) (20 posts) on June 30, 2009 at 1:46 pm
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There is a newly added aisle in the Intel BX Software Store (US/Canada) that now offers netbook applications. There are six categories of applications including Communications, Education & Reference, Entertainment, Games, Utilities & Security, and Home, Health & Hobby. Each of the apps have been vetted to follow these specifications: Windows based, typically 1.6 GHz [...]
Category: Academic, Cool Software, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized, What If Software
Which technology is making things happen in your life?
By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 22, 2009 at 9:53 am
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I have read or seen recent reports of events happening in the world and I'm told that technology such as Twitter, Facebook or mobile phone videos are a big part of what is happening. So, tell me the one technology that you feel is making things happening in your life.
Category: Academic, Cool Software, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Threading Building Blocks, Visual Computing, What If Software
Have you tried Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite?
By Caroline D (Intel) (3 posts) on June 5, 2009 at 9:23 am
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Hi everyone… Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite has been available for a week and the downloads continue! We are excited about this technology preview -- the documentation, samples, Correctness Modeling, and the Microsoft Visual Studio* integration. As you know, there is no silver bullet when it comes to parallelizing an existing [...]
Category: Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, What If Software
2000 posts. Time to throw a party!
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (33 posts) on June 4, 2009 at 7:31 am
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Today we had our 2000th blog post. It struck me that this is a milestone worth mentioning. I’m amazed at how much the Software Network community has changed since we started blogging a couple years ago. It has been an interesting journey. It seems like just yesterday that we started blogging. Indeed it’s difficult to [...]