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Developers, here's your chance to win a netbook!
What do you have planned over the holiday break next month? In your free time, how about coding a small app and then entering it for a chance to win a netbook? If that sounds interesting, head over to our Intel Atom Developer Challenge to learn more. Create a netbook application to submit to the …
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Ten reasons to read “Active Platform Management Demystified”
This book is a must read for everyone in the IT arena (developers, IT professionals, etc.) because it’s not only a deep guide to Intel® AMT technology, it’s also a very useful review of state-of-the-art manageability standards. If you have discussed or read about WS-Man, WBEM, CIM, DASH, SMASH and o …
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Brown goes to Town. Thinking Parallel in Minnesota
I have to say that I love my job. I get to meet all kinds of fascinating people all on the same road to THINK PARALLEL. One such person is Dr. Dick Brown of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Brown attended last year’s SIGCSE in Chattanooga, TN, and heard Michael Wrinn of Intel’s …
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Parallelism: Super and everywhere; talk parallel with us at SC���09 and PDC
This week I get to “talk parallel” at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland and at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference in L.A. If you will be either place, you should visit us at our booths and talks! If you are in Portland Oregon for Supercomputing 2009, we can show you our latest Cluster To …
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SP1 for Intel Parallel Studio - service pack worth installing!
Intel® Parallel Studio Service Pack 1 is now available, adding support for Windows* 7. SP1 is well worth downloading and installing - here are some of the reasons: Parallel Inspector can be driven (for automating test suites) by a command line! Bug fixes - of course - not many issues needed fixing, …
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My Half Day at Supercomputing 09 at Portland Expo Center
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 at the fro …
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Video: Paul Cooper on the Moblin User Experience
According to Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI Research, Linux-based netbooks will be close to one-third of the 35 million netbooks shipped this year or 11 million Linux netbooks, and Intel has been working with the Moblin community and other projects to make sure that these Linux netbooks run well on Int …
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Intel cores in 80% of TOP500
I didn't get the chance to go to the SC09 conference, but I am watching the news that's coming out of that event. One of the regular features at SC is the release of the TOP500 list of most powerful computers in the world. Check out the website (www.top500.org) for the most current list and all so …
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Why Develop Games For Atom?
So you've heard of the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program. As a game developer you may be wondering, "What’s the opportunity?” or “Why bother developing for Atom, won’t many of the same casual games created for a PC work fine on a Netbook?” To get answers I think you have to think outside “typical” PC …
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Processing of exceptions inside parallel sections
Some time ago I wrote in the blog about some problems (see note "OpenMP and exceptions") occurring when an exception excesses the boundaries of parallel sections. I have also told you that an exception can be generated by new operator and that is must be caught and processed before it leaves the par …
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Magic constants and malloc() function
Once again I would like to discuss the issue of using magic constants in code. We can eternally repeat that one should use sizeof() operator for correct calculation of the size of memory being allocated. But both this knowledge and correct writing of a new code will not help you detect an error alre …
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Succeed in Mobility and You Could Win a $5,000 Co-Marketing Campaign
An ever-increasing percentage of people are turning to laptops for business and personal computing. Optimizing your applications for notebook PCs using the Intel® Centrino® processor technology featuring Intel® multi-core mobile processors can help you ensure that your applications offer the best mo …
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Intel Parallel Universe Portal: A New Cloud-Based Analysis Tool to Measure Multicore Application Sc …
Starting today, developers can test the scaling of their applications to multi-core using the new Intel® Parallel Universe Portal, a cloud-based scaling analysis tool to help with parallel programming. There is currently no charge for this service; it is available online here on the Intel Software …
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Testing scaling using computers in the clouds.
Available today: a way to test scaling using cloud-computing, we have just released this web-based tool to help with parallel programming. Our Intel® Parallel Universe Portal will take your Windows (32 bit) application, run it through the scaling analysis engine in Intel Parallel Studio, and give ba …
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Microsoft PDC 2009 - Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop
I'm presently attending the Microsoft PDC 2009 conference and I am today in the Patterns of Parallel Programming workshop. It appeared that the workshop was being recorded and so I sent an e-mail to some of the PDC 2009 organizers and can confirm that the Patterns of Parallel Programming workshop re …
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Take Five Videos- Latest take on Technology
Take Five Videos- Want to hear more of the user experience on Moblin? How about watching the Unreal Development Kit Promotional video, which is now available for a free download? Click on the link below to get access to these video series with the latest take on Technology. TAKE FIVE VIDEOS Enroll …
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Parallelism: Super and everywhere; talk parallel with us at SC’09 and PDC
This week I get to “talk parallel” at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland and at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference in L.A. If you will be either place, you should visit us at our booths and talks! If you are in Portland Oregon for Supercomputing 2009, we can show you our latest Cluster To …
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Mixing MPI and OpenMP, hugging hardware and dealing with it
This morning, I took a rare break, and attended a tutorial at Supercomputing. I'm glad I did. The tutorial looked at the pros and cons of mixing MPI and OpenMP in a single program, and was taught by Rolf Rabenseifner (University of Stuttgart), Georg Hager (University of Erlangen) and Gabriele Jost …
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How Do You Define Cloud Computing?
I've been blogging about cloud computing fairly often lately, and it is part of our focused topic for October and November on the Open Source at Intel website; however, I haven't really spent much time talking about the various definitions of cloud computing. Jim Kaskade recently compiled a large li …
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In the Mind of a Mobile Developer
Trying to work out how a mobile application developer thinks is becoming quite the hot topic these days. In the last 2 years the business of writing mobile applications from niche to normal and we’re at the stage now where not only the mobile platform is important; not only the operating system is i …
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