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How Do Applications Run on a New Micro-Architecture? Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 Answers the Question
The Profile System target type provided by Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 allows you to analyze the system performance as a whole and provides you with all the information you might need in order to optimize the applications for your new target micro-architecture.
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Getting the Straight Dope on Instruction-Level Optimization
It's not easy to find all the help you need to drop to assembly language optimization or use the latest vector-based instruction extensions, but these resources will help immeasurably.
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Cpuinfo: The Processor Information Utility for Intel MPI Library
The
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Transactional Synchronization in Haswell
Intel TSX provides a set of instruction-set extensions that allow programmers to specify regions of code for transactional synchronization
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Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Applications: Optimize Up To the Node Level
Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 provides an MPI hybrid development suite that targets developers on high-performance clusters.
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The CoreInfo 3.03 Utility Provides Detailed Intel Instruction Sets
The newest version of CoreInfo provides a detailed summary of all the instructions sets that the CPUs found on the system support.
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Boost Performance for Your Android Native Code
The Android NDK is a toolset that lets you embed components that make use of native code in your Android applications.
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Calling IPP Functions from C# Code
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, also known as IPP, is a library of highly optimized math software functions for digital media and data-processing applications.
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Three Parallel Backtracking Designs
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Retrieving Detailed Information About Your Intel Multicore CPU Features with Intel IPP
There are several ways of retrieving detailed information about your Intel multicore CPU features. I discovered two functions in IPP that provide most of the information I usually need.
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Implicit CPU Vectorization with Intel OpenCL SDK 1.5
Intel OpenCL SDK 1.5 includes important performance enhancements specifically designed for the latest Intel 2nd Generation Core Processors and outlines a path for future performance improvements.
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Backtracking for Fun and Profit
Backtracking can be used to find all (or some) solutions to problems that are able to incrementally build candidates to solutions.
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Intel Vector Statistical Library
Boost performance of pseudo-random and quasi-random number generation
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Rise of the Planet of the Iterative Quicksort
In the third and final part of the Iterative Quicksort trilogy, anything can happen and anyone can die.
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Introducing Intel Labs' River Trail
Getting parallelized functions to work with arrays in JavaScript
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Parallelism As a First Class Citizen in C and C++
We need mechanisms for parallelism that have strong space-time guarantees, simple program understanding, and serialization semantics — all things we do not have in C and C++ today
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Memory Constraints on Thread Performance
Threading is no guarantee of improved performance if memory issues are not attended to
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Introducing Embree
Open source photo-realistic ray tracing kernels that take full advantage of SSE and AVX on the CPU
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