Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 4, September 2010

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Contents:

• Letter from the Editor: Breaking Ground and Building Trust, by James Reinders
  James Reinders, lead evangelist and director of Intel® Software Development Products, addresses recent innovations in apps and tools, highlights key 2010 milestones, and explores what’s next in the new year and beyond.

   

• Intel® Parallel Studio 2011: Getting Your App Ready for Multicore Just Got Easier, by Leila Chucri
  Engineer Leila Chucri introduces Intel® Parallel Studio 2011, examining new features with an eye to enabling the development environment for multicore.

   

• Using Serial Modeling Tools to Tame the Parallel Beast, by John Pieper
  Addressing many of the key reasons why parallelism is considered difficult, Intel® Parallel Advisor offers a proven threading methodology, and enables parallel and serial modeling.

   

• Intel® Cilk™ Plus, by Krishna Ramkumar
  Intel Cilk Plus adds fine-grained task parallelism support to C and C++, making it easy to add parallelism to both new and existing software, and efficiently exploit multiple processors.

   

• Nine Tips to Parallel Programming Heaven, by Stephen Blair-Chappell
  In this interview, Dr. Yann Golanski shares with us his favorite tips on parallel programming. The tips are based on investigative work on parallel n-body simulation code carried out during his doctoral studies.

   

• The World’s First Sudoku* “Thirty Niner”, by Stephen Blair-Chappell
  Lars Peters Endresen and Håvard Graff, two talented engineers from Oslo, share with us how they created what may be the world’s first Sudoku puzzle that has 39 clues.