A technical presentation has been scheduled for February 15, 2012: Future-Proof Your Application's Performance With Vectorization.  This presentation is for C, C++, and Fortran developers, and will help you get started understanding and evaluating vectorization using new technologies such as Intel® Cilk Plus, pragma SIMD and the Intel Compiler’s Guided Auto Parallelization report.

For the complete presentation abstract and registration details please visit http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-products-technical-presentations/

Two technical presentations have been scheduled for January and early February.  Both presentations are related to Intel® Cilk™ Plus which is part of Intel® Parallel Building Blocks.  These presentations are for C and C++ programmers developing on Windows* and Linux*.  The presentation on February 1 is also applicable to C/C++ developers on Mac OS* X.

For registration details please visit http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-products-technical-presentations/.

As a postscript to the December Technical Presentations here is where you can find the slides and records for those presentations:

What's New In Intel Fortran Composer XE 2011

Intel(R) Array Building Blocks Coding Tips

For registration details please visit http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-products-technical-presentations/.

October 26, 2010

Topic: Super Charge Applications with Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives – A Component of Intel® Parallel Studio 2011

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is an extensive library of multicore-ready, highly optimized software functions for digital media and data-processing applications and comes with Intel Parallel Studio 2011 and Intel® Parallel Composer 2011. We will show how to set up an application to use Intel IPP from within Intel Parallel Studio, what kind functions the library has to offer and an example of the performance benefits from using the library.

Presenter: Walter Shands

Register for the presentation by clicking the date/time below:

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:00AM-10:00AM PDT (GMT-8)

November 18, 2010

Topic: Accelerate your multimedia and data processing application with the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) 7.0

The Intel® IPP library is a collection of highly optimized software functions for use with a wide range of applications, including digital media, signal processing and data-processing applications and is included as a component within the Intel Parallel Studio developer’s toolkit.

This webinar will cover key new features and changes that are part of the IPP 7.0 release, and provide a review of the drop-in high-level data compression libraries now included with the Intel IPP library: ipp_zlib, ipp_bzip2, ipp_gzip and ipp_lzopack. New features in the Intel® Intel® IPP 7.0 library, include:

• Data Compression Library support
• JPEG-XR support and imaging performance improvements
• Optimizations for the 256-bit AVX SIMD instruction set
• Intel® AES-NI (cryptography) optimizations

Presenter: Paul Fischer

Register for the presentation by clicking the date/time below:

Thursday, November 18, 2010  9:00AM-10:00AM PST (GMT-8)

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http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/tag/SWProdTechPres/feed/.  A method for subscribing to the upcoming technical presentations by email will be available soon. Since I'm using a tag for the feed if others blog on upcoming technical presentations, you will still get the updates.

There was a technical presentation on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, on Intel® Cilk Plus.  The recording of that presentation is available here.

There are two technical presentations coming up next week:

October 12, 2010

Topic: Adding Parallelism with Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011: No Parallelism Experience Required

Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011 provides the information and the tools needed by any C/C++ programmer to add safe and effective parallelism to their programs. Parallel Advisor is a component of Intel® Parallel Studio 2011 and is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio*.

In this presentation, you will learn how to:

• Find the places in the program where parallelism can be usefully added

• Find and replace the parts of the program that prevent parallelism

• Test the revised program for parallel correctness and performance

• Keep the program serial through these steps

• Add parallelism to code samples / examples

Presenter: Mark Davis

Register for a session now by clicking a date/time below:

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:00AM - 10:00AM PDT (GMT-8)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:00PM - 6:00PM PDT (GMT-8)

October 14, 2010

Topic: Intel® Array Building Blocks Technical Presentation: Introduction and Q&A

Intel® Array Building Blocks provides a generalized data parallel programming solution that frees application developers from dependencies on particular hardware architectures. It offers an API that allows parallel algorithms to be expressed at a high level. Its dynamic compiler and runtime produce scalable, portable and deterministic parallel implementations from the single high-level source. This technical presentation is an introduction to Intel ArBB. We will discuss the main features of Intel ArBB, and walk through some sample code to demonstrate the benefits such as forward-scaling, safety-by-design, and ease-of-use. There will be a Q&A session at the end of the presentation to answer any questions you have for Intel ArBB.

 Presenters: Noah Clemons, Zhang Zhang

 Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:00AM-10AM PDT (GMT-8)

 Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:00PM-6:00PM PDT (GMT-8)