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- I hope soNVIDIA with x86-64 technology would be Next Big ThingTM, although I'd rather see a new architecture replace the aging x86. 64-bit is just a tack-on feature set of x86. I'd rather see something in line with IA64 from NVIDIA to shake up Intel. I'm sure...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Berkeley UPC 2.10.0 (Mac)
- Unified Parallel C UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be...
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- Intel: 32nm is just the beginning
- Intel hasn't released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum IDF talking about technology even farther down road. In his keynote, executive VP Sean Maloney gave a glimpse of a desktop running Sandy Bridge, the new microarchitecture that comes after Westmere,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Snow Leopard geared for multicore future
- You do realize that...You do realize that GCD is just a combination of 2 technologies that already existed previously on other platforms, right?a) Apple finally added "closures", aka "anonymous methods" or "lambda expressions" to Objective-C. Other languages have had this for many many years, and it is what you need...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Hold 6 and 4 keys at boot to enable 64-bit Snow Leopard
- Can you clarify this for me?I'm running 64 bit Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, or at least I thought I was. Now I'm not so sure since I don't hold the 6 or the 4 key when I boot up. Since there is no way that Windows is ever...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Corsair's Dominator GT DDR3 RAM back on sale
- Corsair's Dominator GT DDR3 RAM back on saleI've had three DDR2-1066 ...Corsair pairs crater in the last two months. Corsair was kind enough to honor their warranty. I have noticed while looking at the SPD numbers using AMD's AOD that the 533 timings appear to be tighter than the 400...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Intel C++ Compiler Professional 11.1 (Mac)
- Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. It provides the most comprehensive multicore and standards support with more parallelism development features; more IntelR Advanced Vector Extensions, Advanced Encryption Standard, and SSE support; more Fortran 2003 features; and improved...
- Software downloads 2009-06-24
- Intel Integrated Performance Primitives 6.1 (Windows)
- Intel Integrated Performance Primitives is an extensive library of multicore-ready, highly optimized software functions for digital media and data-processing applications. Intel IPP offers thousands of optimized functions covering frequently-used fundamental algorithms. Deferred Mode Image Processing Framework delivers pipelined parallelism, dramatically improving performance of pipelined image operations, especially on larger images....
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Intel Math Kernel Library 10.2 (Windows)
- Intel Math Kernel Library provides an expedient way to achieve parallelism for math routines--the mainstay in scientific, engineering, and financial codes--to realize the performance benefits of Intel Architecture platforms. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math, and more. Offering performance optimizations for Intel...
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional 11.1 (Mac)
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. It provides the most comprehensive multicore and standards support with more parallelism development features; more Intel Advanced Vector Extensions, Advanced Encryption Standard, and SSE support; more Fortran 2003 features; and...
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Intel C++ Compiler Professional 11.1 (Windows)
- Intel C++ Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. Professional Edition comes with the compiler's breadth of advanced optimization, multi-threading, and processor support, including automatic processor dispatch, vectorization, and loop unrolling. It also provides highly optimized C++ templates for parallelism,...
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Seven post holes and one thought
- Seven post holes and one thoughtFixed Flow RateMaybe my reasoning is not on form at the moment due to the copious amounts of beer I had last night but surely changing the diameter of the pipe doesnt make a difference. If you have a flow rate of 10 litres per...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- New dual, triple and quad core CPUs from AMD
- New dual, triple and quad core CPUs from AMDMeh, quad cores are overkill......for most consumers, including me. I mean, last time I checked we didn't have Minority Report type touch-holographic applications, right? Why do I need a quad core system if I'm only using Word, Final Draft, Firefox...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- AMD antitrust response: Ruling will unseat Intel
- AMD antitrust response: Ruling will unseat Intel I hope this doesn't create another price war.Intel was doing so well with lower pricing to stay competative with AMD.Inhell just tried to immitate M$It it was not for M$ probably Inhell would not have gotten so evil and greedy.Lots of ...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Discussion with Bryan Doerr of Savvis
- I recently spoke with Bryan Doerr, CTO of Savvis, about VMware's vSphere, Savvis' customers use of virtualization, can a industry standard system-only product legitimately be considered a "datacenter operating system" and life in general. Bryan has had the misfortue to speak with me in the past and, I'm sure, must...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- MSDN Webcast: Ease the Onramp to C++ Parallelism in Visual Studio - Intel Parallel Studio (Level 200)
- Leveraging 25 years creating effective tools for parallel application development, Intel now brings parallelism to the full range of Microsoft Windows applications. Intel Parallel Studio gives Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ developers the tools they need to discover, build, debug, and optimize for multicore. This demonstration addresses parallelism opportunities and the...
- Webcasts 2009-05-11
- Multi-Dimensional Characterization of Temporal Data Mining on Graphics Processors
- Through the algorithmic design patterns of data parallelism and task parallelism, the Graphics Processing Unit GPU offers the potential to vastly accelerate discovery and innovation across a multitude of disciplines. For example, the exponential growth in data volume now presents an obstacle for high-throughput data mining in fields such as...
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Silicon Photonic WDM Point-to-Point Network for Multi-Chip Processor Interconnects
- Processor performance in instructions per second continues to rise. But the improvement is no longer coming from increasing clock rates due to the associated power, heat and design complexity costs. Instead, parallelism through multi-core processing has become the technology choice to continue processor performance scaling. Processors with 8 cores and...
- White papers 2009-04-30
- Intel Parallel Studio 1.0 (Windows)
- Leveraging more than 25 years of parallel software and high-performance expertise, Intel brings threading to Windows applications. Intel Parallel Studio is a comprehensive parallelism toolset designed for Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ developers. Simplified analysis, compiling, debugging, error checking, and tuning enable optimized and innovative multicore applications. Create optimized, innovative parallel...
- Software downloads 2009-03-25
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