Posted Julho 20th 20110
Paul Petersen, Architect for the Intel® Parallel Studio product suite, will be presenting on July 21st at 9am PDT on the following topic:Modeling parallelism with Intel® Parallel Advisor
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Posted Julho 18th 20110
The Dynamic Resolution Rendering sample, first shown at the Games Developers Conference 2011 in San Francisco, has now gone live in time for games developers attending my Develop UK 2011 talk to check it out. This sample demonstrates a technique for balancing rendering quality and performance ...
Posted Julho 1st 20113
Part 4 of 4 (Innovation Changers)
This will be my final installment on this blog topic titled: Gaming - in transition and revolution. To briefly recap the previous topics I first talked about the impact of Mobile. In my second installment I covered the changes and evolutions occurring in both ...
Posted Junho 27th 20111
The Intel® Power Checker provides a quick assessment about power-related parameters of an application when it is idle and when it processes a workload. The tool is also detects whether the application is power aware.
Currently, ...
Posted Junho 14th 20110
Mark Davis, Senior Principal Engineer for the Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011 product, will be presenting on June 22nd at 9am PDT on the following topic:Intel® Parallel Advisor 2011 Shows Its Stuff on Duplo
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Posted Abril 3rd 20117
I’ve been following these PC form factors for quite awhile now. They’ve actually been around for a very long time when one comes to think of it; at least a decade from what I can tell. There also definitely seems to be a ton of hype on them all of a sudden too since Apple released the iPad ...
Posted Março 30th 20117
It is always a challenge to measure power usage of the processor by software which usually requires special purpose tools or instrumentation along with third party equipment. The 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family (codename Sandy Bridge) offers an energy counter to estimate the power ...
Posted Janeiro 7th 20115
Hello fellow SW developers and media creation enthusiasts,
Today, at the annual CES conference, Intel is proudly launching the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ Processor (formerly codenamed Sandy Bridge) featuring ...
Posted Dezembro 22nd 20101
Part 13: Example 3 (Maximizing Idle Periods) - Batch I/O requests
Frequent I/O operations represent another pitfall in programming for energy efficiency. Frequent, small reads and writes generate a chain of interrupts that work to limit the size and number of idle periods on the system. For ...
Posted Dezembro 21st 20100
Part 12: Example 2 (Maximizing Idle Periods) - Avoid polling and busy wait loops
Another undesirable program construct is the tight polling loop. “Tight” refers to iteration frequency and the desire to commence subsequent processing immediately after a particular condition has been detected. As ...
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