A Whole New World of Accelerated Performance
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Moreover, Intel's delivery of tools to support the creation of
applications for parallel processing systems "is a very important
thing," said Janel Garvin, senior analyst and founder of Evans Data
Corp.
"Multicore processors open up a whole new (and virtually
unlimited) world of accelerated performance for applications, but in
order to take advantage of the new architecture developers have to
multithread their apps and use parallel programming, and they know it,"
Garvin said. "In our latest North American survey we found over half
(53 percent) of developers are already multithreading some of their
apps and 70 percent expect to eventually do so. Intel is hands down the
industry leader in creating tools for parallel development, and
Parallel Studio is going to be big hit. Visual Studio is the most
popular IDE [integrated development environment] in the world and
enabling those users to create apps that can use multiple threads of
execution in their apps is going to give parallelism a huge boost.
Intel's recently released compilers and tool kits (version 11.0 C++
compiler and Version 3.23 Cluster toolkit) have no equal in the
industry for enabling parallel programming with auto-vectorization and
auto-parallelization and other tools and libraries. This directly aids
the developer and cuts the complexity and complexity is the No. 1
obstacle to parallel programming according to our most recent North
American Developer survey."
Regarding the other components in the Intel Parallel Studio, the
Intel Parallel Advisor helps a developer understand where to add
parallelism to existing source code. Feedback from the tool allows
better design decisions by showing the consequences of decisions,
identifying conflicts, and suggesting ways to resolve conflicts.
Intel Parallel Inspector is a proactive "bug finder." It is a
flexible tool to add reliability regardless of the choice of
parallelism programming models. Unlike traditional debuggers, Inspector
detects hard-to-find threading errors in multithreaded C/C++ Windows
applications and does root-cause analysis for defects such as data
races and deadlocks.
And the Intel Parallel Amplifier assists in fine-tuning parallel
applications for optimal performance for multicore processors by
helping find unexpected serialization that limits scaling. Intel
Parallel Amplifier makes it simple to quickly find multicore
performance bottlenecks, for everyone-not just "experts."
