Transactional memory support: the speculative_spin_mutex
Intel recently released the 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processors, which have Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) enabled. Intel TSX can improve the performance of...
View ArticleIntel Parallel Computing Centers
I'm excited by our announcement today of Intel® Parallel Computing Centers. The first five centers will be located at CINECA, Purdue University, Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of...
View ArticleIntel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Turbo Part 2: Hot and Cold...
The previous blog in this series, “Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Turbo Part 1: What is turbo? And how will it affect my horsepower?” can be found at...
View ArticleApplying Intel® Threading Building Blocks observers for thread affinity on...
In spite of the fact that the Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) library [1][2] provides high-level task based parallelism intended to hide software thread management, sometimes thread...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Intel® Composer XE 2013 SP1
Intel® Composer XE 2013 SP1 includes Intel® Compiler 14.0 among other components. The list below summarizes the features and enhancement highlights in Intel® Compiler 14.0 that are pertinent to those...
View ArticlePower Configuration Part 0: Introduction: Yikes, there is a lot that is not...
I was hoping to write a brief two part overview of how to configure the various power settings for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor. It was going to be concise and brief, allowing me to get on to the...
View ArticleQuick Start Guides Published for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Expert User
Hi everyone,This is a short notice to let you know that two new articles have been published for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor:Quick Start Guide: For the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor...
View ArticleDoctor Fortran in "It's a Modern Fortran World"
I recently received a copy of "Numerical Computing with Modern Fortran", by Richard Hanson and Tim Hopkins, and noted how many books on Fortran are being published recently with "Modern Fortran" in the...
View ArticleIntel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Configuration: Why should I...
Previous blogs on power management and a host of other power management resources can be found in List of Useful Power and Power Management Articles, Blogs and References.WHAT AND WHY DO WE WANT TO...
View ArticleBubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble; Mutex Lock and Buffer Double
A problem that I’ve been seeing recently within genomic codes stems from the I/O required. Before you can start processing them, large data files of DNA reads have to be read into memory and converted...
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