Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 23, November 2015

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Contents:

• Letter from the Editor, by James Reinders
  Computers “Think” More Like Humans, but They Still Need Us
   
• Which Tool Do I Use? A Roadmap to Increasing Your Application’s Performance
  By using the correct tool at each phase of your performance tuning, you can greatly increase performance at lower cost.
   
• Modernizing Code for Tomorrow’s HPC Problem-Solving
  Tips on code modernization, or increasing parallel programming, that have proven valuable for dedicated HPC software developers, domain specialists, and data scientists alike.
   
• Get a Helping Hand from the Vectorization Advisor
  With Vectorization Advisor recommendations, the Hartree Centre was able to get an 18 percent speedup in their code
   
• Optimizing Image Processing
  As China’s largest online direct sales company, JD.com handles several billion product images every day. By using Intel® software development tools, JD.com sped up its image processing 17x—handling 300,000 images in 162 seconds.
   
• Boosting Speech Recognition Performance
  Qihoo360 Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese Internet security company, collaborated with Intel to optimize its Euler* platform, which supports machine learning-related computation models for real businesses.
   
• How Fortran Developers Can Boost Productivity with Submodules
  Submodules are now supported in Intel® Fortran Compiler Version 16.0.