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How do you like our new look?

By Bill Pearson (Intel) (31 posts) on April 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Did you notice that the ISN site has a new look? We just launched the update which moves our navigation up to a simple header at the top of each page. We've also made the header and navigation consistent across the blogs, content, forums, etc. For those of you still wondering what I'm talking [...]

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Category: Customer Support, Gaming, Graphics, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Open Source, University Curriculum, Virtualization, What If Software

Parallel programming extensions to C/C++

By Rajiv Deodhar (Intel) (1 posts) on March 11, 2008 at 9:14 am
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An experimental Intel compiler supports new C/C++ keywords "__parallel" and "__spawn". Use as statement prefixes to create parallel tasks.

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Category: Multicore, Software Engineering, What If Software

Intel® Decimal Floating-Point Math Library

By Marius Cornea (Intel) (1 posts) on March 6, 2008 at 11:29 am
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Decimal floating-point operations were a necessity from the beginnings of the modern age of computing. However, the lack of a good standard for decimal computations has led to the existence of numerous proprietary software packages for decimal or decimal-like computation, most based on fixed-point decimal types, and each with its own characteristics and capabilities. A [...]

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Category: What If Software

What developers talks about Integrated debugger for Java*/JNI Environments

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 5:22 am
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Recently I've got a chance to talk with several commercial VM engineer, and I would like to publish some summary of conversation: "I use Visual studio for native and Eclipse for java" "I would really like to be able to debug by going from JVM-code to Java-code [...]

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Category: Open Source, Software Engineering, What If Software

Intel® Performance Tuning Utility - 3.0 is coming soon!

By Alexei Alexandrov (Intel) (1 posts) on December 7, 2007 at 1:59 am
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Finally I've found some time to write my first blog post! And there is a good reason to do this - the coming-soon upload of Intel® Performance Tuning Utility version 3.0 to WhatIf site. This version will include a huge number of bug fixes as well as new features - such as data latency analysis, [...]

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Category: What If Software

Debugger's role and its usage scenarios, some expanding to Java*/JNI world.

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 6, 2007 at 7:03 am
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Historically general mechanism to debug managed code with encapsulation or involving of unmanaged code is in using of two different debuggers (see http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jnidebug/index.html, http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2006/tools/TS-1011.pdf for details).  What engineers could expect from switching to single debugger scenario? For developers single debugger scenario is a comfortable environment with unified style of management of key-binding, macro definitions, scripts and so [...]

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Category: Open Source, Software Engineering, What If Software

Debugging concepts

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 5, 2007 at 4:54 am
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Traditionally we have several debugging concepts to choose out-of- and in- process debugging. Let’s start from in-process, as soon as I own debugger implementing in-process debugger implementation. There are several examples of in-process debugging in industry: printf-debugging (very powerful and helpful;) http://udrepper.livejournal.com/5018.html), kernels' and hypervisors' debuggers. In fact kernels and hypervisor debugger, has no really [...]

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Category: Open Source, Software Engineering, What If Software

The Monster Mash

By Robert Ennals (Intel) (25 posts) on November 8, 2007 at 10:32 am
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In my last blog post, I mentioned that I would be giving my talk at "The New New Internet, Web 2.0 Accelerator" while wearing a gorilla costume. Now that this event has taken place, I feel I should give some explanation and photographic evidence. Here I am in costume backstage. I'm dressed as a "Zombie Vampire [...]

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Category: Cool Software, What If Software

Software support for Transactional Memory

By David Stewart (Intel) (71 posts) on November 7, 2007 at 8:00 pm
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Last week I attended Intel's annual Software Enabling Summit in Anaheim. This is a worldwide gathering of Intel's software engineers charged with ensuring that the world's software takes best advantage of Intel processor and platform features. (Sidebar: My wife thought it was really funny that we had a whole conference about "enabling", and suggested that I [...]

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Category: Multicore, What If Software

See me at "The New New Internet"

By Robert Ennals (Intel) (25 posts) on October 25, 2007 at 6:02 pm
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In the DC area on the 31st? Then come see me talk about Intel Mash Maker at "The New New Internet", as part of their "Web 2.0 Accelerator". http://thenewnewinternet.com/ Should be fun, particularly as I'm planning to give the talk in a gorilla suit (wondering why? You'll have to come see the talk).

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