Intel Simplifies Multi-Core Parallelism
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 28, 2006 — Intel Corporation today announced the availability of three new threading tools that enable software developers to efficiently create reliable, high-performance threaded applications to take full advantage of multi-core processing systems. These new tools, Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0, Intel Thread Checker 3.0 and Intel Thread Profiler 3.0, are part of the most comprehensive tool set in the industry, enabling developers to achieve correctness, scalability and ease of programming in parallel development. “These are the tools software developers need the most to enable them to exploit parallelism from multi-core processors,” said James Reinders, marketing director for Intel’s Developer Products Division. “Developers do not want to inflate their code by writing their own thread management code and no one should have to debug and tune applications using yesterday’s developer tools. These products work with other Intel tools, understand locks, OpenMP and other parallel constructs, and fit easily into current development environments.”
[B]Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0[/B]
Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0 is a C++ runtime library that simplifies introducing threads to an application, making performance gains possible while shielding software developers from the low-level complexity of assigning threads to processor cores. With this tool, developers can avoid having to re-write, re-test and re-tune common parallel data structures and algorithms. Developers can utilize this product to make their programs simpler and more maintainable while also enhancing the speed and scalability of their applications. Intel Threading Building Blocks enables developers to write an application once that automatically recognizes the number of available cores and scales performance appropriately. This reduces the need to re-write application code when new processors with more cores are released. Threading Building Blocks 1.0 provides a single solution for Windows*, Linux, and Mac * OS on platforms using Intel, Microsoft* and GNU compilers. This library can be used in concert with other threading programming interfaces, such as Windows, POSIX* and OpenMP* threads.
[B]Intel Thread Checker 3.0[/B]
Intel Thread Checker 3.0 is a threading analysis tool that allows developers to introduce threading in a way to minimize error potential. With its patented, advanced error protection engine, it provides “thread safety” by identifying the most obscure threading errors in 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Intel Thread Checker is unique in its ability to help developers understand how to optimally use Windows*, POSIX* or OpenMP* threads in their applications. This latest version of Intel Thread Checker now supports 64-bit applications on Intel hardware platforms based on the Intel 64 architecture, enabling developers to use just one thread analyzer for both their 32- and 64-bit applications. In addition to supporting Intel compilers and existing Microsoft* compilers on Windows*, Intel Thread Checker 3.0 adds integration with Microsoft* Visual Studio 2005.
[B]Intel Thread Profiler 3.0[/B]
Intel Thread Profiler 3.0 for Windows provides developers with insight into how their application threads interact. Intel Thread Profiler visualizes threaded application behavior and pinpoints parallel performance issues, such as bottlenecks. It allows developers to measure the number of cores that are effectively utilized by the application and indicates the percentage of the code that is not optimally parallelized for the hardware platform on which the application is running. Intel Thread Profiler 3.0 can also prototype and estimate the performance potential of threading parts of an application, enabling developers to thread the parts of their application that will yield the greatest performance.
[B]Pricing and Availability[/B]
Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0, Intel Thread Checker 3.0 and Intel Thread Profiler 3.0 are available today. Suggested pricing for the products: Intel Threading Building Blocks 1.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems $299; Intel Thread Checker 3.0 for Windows and Linux $999 and Intel Thread Profiler 3.0 for Windows $299. The Intel Thread Checker 3.0 for Linux, which currently supports command-line usage only, has a suggested price of $499.
Intel offers a complete line of software development products, including compilers, libraries and analysis tools, which enable developers to get more performance out of their systems and applications. Intel software developer products offer industry leading support for parallel programming for systems of all sizes. For more information, visit [URL]http://www.intel.com/software/products[/URL].
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