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Investing in hardware for parallel programmability
posted by Jim Held on March 23, 2009 at Research@Intel
About a year ago, Intel and Microsoft each invested $10M in jointly funding Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at UC Berkeley and U of Illinois to make parallel programming mainstream in future client software. I’ve had the pleasure of attending...
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tagged: parallel programming, software development, terascale, UPCRC
Unwelcome Advice
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on June 30, 2008 at Research@Intel
Generally speaking, you don’t want to deliver any kind of difficult news to customers, partners, etc. Some of us are lucky enough to talk to folks about the performance and capabilities of our processors, shipping and soon-to-ship. Some of us,...
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tagged: HPC, multi-core, parallel programming, programming, programming models
Taking Multi-core Programming Into The Bazaar: An Argument for Open Source Tools
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on April 07, 2008 at Research@Intel
All the major CPU manufacturers have thrown their lot in with multi-core designs. The (multi-billion dollar) question now is how to program these devices. I can tell you with some confidence that we don’t yet know what the answer will...
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tagged: multi-core software, Open Source, parallel programming, software development
Introducing two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”
posted by Justin Rattner on March 19, 2008 at Research@Intel
Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”...
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tagged: IDF, IDF2008, intel, parallel computing, parallel programming, research, terascale
"Automated sports highlights" demo video
posted by Sean Koehl on March 17, 2008 at Research@Intel
I wanted to share a video of some of the application research we have going on at our Intel China Research Center in the area of video mining. In collaboration with Tsinghua University, Yimin Zhang and his team at ICRC...
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tagged: China, ICRC, parallel programming, research, soccer, terascale
Backward Compatibility ≠ Forward Scalability?
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on March 06, 2008 at Research@Intel
One of the constants valued by our developers is the backward compatibility provided by our architectures in the form of a consistent ISA. Historically, a corollary of this has been that legacy software has benefited from process and micro-architectural improvement....
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tagged: Multi-core, Parallel Programming, Programming Languages, SSE
Designing future computers with future workloads
posted by Timothy Mattson on February 26, 2008 at Research@Intel
What will people do with their computers in five, ten or twenty years? How will computers need to change to support these future usage models? And finally, how the heck are we going to program these things? These are the...
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tagged: many core, parallel programming, PARSEC, terascale
C for Throughput Computing
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on January 03, 2008 at Research@Intel
One of the challenges of enabling parallel computing broadly is that there is (understandably) some inertia around migrating programming tools, build environments, and, generally, 100’s of thousands or millions of lines of code to new programming models or compilers (especially...
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tagged: parallel programming, programming models, software development
My programming model rules! Yours drools!
posted by Timothy Mattson on December 17, 2007 at Research@Intel
In a schoolyard playground somewhere in Silicon Valley … two programmers meet on the swing-set. P1: My programming language is easy to use and delivers high performance with only minimal programmer effort. P2: Well my language is better and is...
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tagged: languages, parallel computing, parallel programming
Throughput Computing for Risk: A Quick Note on Financial Engineering
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on December 06, 2007 at Research@Intel
One of the things my group does while developing parallel programming models is to try to comprehend the application programming models and patterns that our tools will be used to implement. We believe this is essential to any work on...
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tagged: finance, options pricing, parallel programming, programming models
Q4 ITJ: The Velvet Revolution of Multi-core Software
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on November 15, 2007 at Research@Intel
Physics is driving a revolution in software development. For software developers, I’m sure it’s odd to think about it this way but the evolving trends in semiconductor manufacturing is going to have a profound impact in how applications, tools, and...
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tagged: Ct, itj, multi-core software, parallel programming
The Problem(s) with GPGPU
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on October 18, 2007 at Research@Intel
Hundreds of GigaFLOPs are available in your PC today….in fact, you might even have a TeraFLOP in there. As someone who cut his teeth on a Cray C90 (15 GFLOPS max), this is an intriguing opportunity to dabble; for the...
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tagged: multi-core, parallel applications, parallel architectures, parallel programming, terascale
Parallel programming environments: less is more
posted by Timothy Mattson on October 02, 2007 at Research@Intel
The single most important paper for programming language designers to read came out in 2000. It wasn’t written by a computer scientist, mathematician, or physical scientist. It was written by a couple professors studying social psychology:...
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tagged: choice overload, languages, MPI, OpenMP, parallel programming
The Many Flavors of Data Parallelism
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on September 06, 2007 at Research@Intel
Data parallel programming models have been “in vogue” lately because of their prevalence in GPGPU programming. As I alluded to in my previous blog, there are other reasons we should be looking at data parallelism….but not all of these models...
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tagged: Ct, data parallel, parallel programming
Multi-core research update: the intimate coupling of software & hardware
posted by Sean Koehl on August 14, 2007 at Research@Intel
This week we are excited to share further technical progress towards our vision to enable scalable, programmable multi-core architectures based on many cores. We are disclosing 8 technical papers from our Tera-scale program via the Intel Technology Journal with new...
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tagged: applications, benchmark, Intel, model-based computing, multi-core, parallel programming, run-times, task scheduling, terascale, workloads
What Makes Parallel Programming Hard?
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on August 03, 2007 at Research@Intel
One of the challenges of multi-core and tera-scale architecture is how to make parallel programming “easier”. But what makes it hard in the first place? I thought it might be worth explaining some of our experiences with this as a...
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tagged: bugs, parallel programming, software development, terascale
Groundhog Day: A Personal Perspective on Multi-core Computing
posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on July 27, 2007 at Research@Intel
In the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same (eponymous) day again and again until he mends his ways and becomes a better person. Nearly twenty years ago, when I entered graduate school, parallel computing was...
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tagged: data parallel, multi-core, parallel computing, parallel programming, software development, terascale
Virtual worlds, 80 cores, and 20,000 golden pigs
posted by Sean Koehl on July 19, 2007 at Research@Intel
Why show 20,000 golden pigs to a select group of 85 press and analysts? Because it was a cool way to show both a future application capability (massive collision detection) and a new parallel programming environment called Ct, i.e. C...
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tagged: 80-core, Intel, parallel programming, research, terascale, virtual worlds
Parallel Computing: making sequential software rare
posted by Timothy Mattson on June 28, 2007 at Research@Intel
In my job at Intel, I get to travel far and wide to meet with research groups working on parallel computing. And as travel, I am constantly struck by the differences between the state of HW and SW in parallel...
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tagged: HPC, parallel computing, parallel programming, terascale
Multi-core processors: An inflection point in software
posted by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai on June 19, 2007 at Research@Intel
Welcome to my first blog! I’m delighted to be part of the Research@Intel blog. As an Intel researcher, my job involves developing new programming systems for future Intel architectures. I work on a range of technologies spanning programming languages, optimizing...
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tagged: multi-core, multi-threaded, parallel programming, terascale
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