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ISSUE 35

Intel® Rendering Framework Using Software Defined Visualization

The open source community initiative on software defined visualization (SDVis) continues to demonstrate that the CPU is better for large-scale rendering than GPU-based solutions, which suffer from memory limitations and high cost. Learn how SDVis is helping to maximize the benefits―and inherent performance―of modern Intel® Xeon® processors with software that takes advantage of high-thread count and data parallelism.

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Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 35, January 2019

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Happy New Year...and May 2019 Bring You High Performance by Henry A. Gabb, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
     
  • Intel® Rendering Framework Using Software-Defined Visualization by Rob Farber, Global Technology Consultant, TechEnablement
    Why Intel® Xeon® processors excel at visualization
     
  • Unifying AI, Analytics, and HPC on a Single Cluster by Allene Bhasker and Keith Mannthey, Solution Architects, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
    Maximizing efficiency and lowering costs for tomorrow's enterprise
     
  • Advancing OpenCL™ for FPGAs by Martin C. Herbordt, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
    Boosting performance with Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ software technology
     
  • Parallelism in Python* by David Liu, Software Technical Consulting Engineer, and Anton Malakhov, Software Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
    Dispelling the myths with tools to achieve parallelism
     
  • Remove Memory Bottlenecks Using Intel® Advisor by Kevin O’Leary and Alex Shinsel, Technical Consulting Engineers, Intel Corporation
    Understanding how your program is accessing memory helps you get more from your hardware
     
  • MPI-3 Non-Blocking I/O Collectives in Intel® MPI Library by Nitya Hariharan, Amarpal Singh Kapoor, and Rama Kishan Malladi, Technical Marketing Engineers, Core and Visual Computing Group, Intel Corporation; Md Vasimuddin, Research Scientist, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Labs
    Speeding up I/O for HPC applications

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Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 34, October 2018

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Edge-to-Cloud Heterogeneous Parallelism with openVINO™ Toolkit by Henry A. Gabb
     
  • OpenVINO ToolKit and FPGAs by James Reinders
    A look at the FPGA targeting of this versatile visual computing toolkit.
     
  • Floating-Point Reproducibility in Intel® Software Tools by Martyn Corden, Xiaoping Duan, and Barbara Perz
    Getting beyond the uncertainty.
     
  • Comparing C++ Memory Allocation Libraries by Rama Kishan Malladi and Nikhil Prasad
    Boosting performance with better dynamic memory allocation.
     
  • LIBXSMM*: An Open Source-Based Inspiration for Hardware and Software Development at Intel by Hans Pabst, Greg Henry, and Alexander Heinecke
    Meet the library that targets Intel® architecture for specialized dense and sparse matrix operations.

  • Advancing the Performance of Astrophysics Simulations with ECHO-3DHPC by Matteo Bugli, Luigi Iapichino, and Fabio Baruffa
    Using the latest Intel® Software Development Tools to make more efficient use of hardware.
     
  • Your Guide to Understanding System Performance by Bhanu Shankar and Munara Tolubaeva
    Meet the Platform Profiler in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 33, July 2018

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: What's the Big Deal about BigDL? by Henry A. Gabb
     
  • Advancing Artificial Intelligence on Apache Spark* with BigDL by Jason Dai and Radhika Rangarajan
    Features, use-cases, and the future.
     
  • Why WebAssembly Is the Future of Computing on the Web by Rich Winterton, Deepti Aggarwal, Tuyet-Trang (Snow), Lam Piel, Brittney Coons, and Nathan Johns
    The history and new direction of processing in the browser.
     
  • Code Modernization in Action: Threading, Memory, and Vectorization Optimizations by Dmitry Prohorov, Cedric Andreolli, and Philippe Thierry
    Using the latest Intel® Software Development Tools to make more efficient use of hardware.
     
  • In-Persistent Memory Computing with Java* by Eric Kaczmarek and Preetika Tyagi
    The key to adaptability in modern application programming.

  • Faster Gradient-Boosting Decision Trees by Ying Hu, Oleg Kremnyov, and Ivan Kuzmin
    How to lift machine learning performance using Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL).
     
  • Hiding Communication Latency Using MPI-3 Non-Blocking Collectives by Amarpal Singh Kapoor, Rama Kishan Malladi, Nitya Hariharan, and Srinivas Sridharan
    Improving HPC performance by overlapping communication and computation.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 32, March 2018

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Computer Vision Coming Soon to a Browser Near You by Henry A. Gabb
     
  • Computer Vision for the Masses by Sajjad Taheri, Alexeandru Nicolau, Alexeander Vedienbaum, Ningxin Hu, and Mohammad Reza Haghighat
    Bringing computer vision to the Open Web Platform*.
     
  • Up Your Game by Giselle Gomez
    How to optimize your game development―no matter what your role―using Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers.
     
  • Harp-DAAL for High-Performance Big Data Computing by Judy Qiu
    The key to simultaneously boosting productivity and performance.
     
  • Understanding the Instruction Pipeline by Alex Shinsel
    The key to adaptability in modern application programming,
     
  • Parallel CFD with the HiFUN* Solver on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor by Rama Kishan Malladi, S.V. Vinutha, and Austin Cherian
    Maximizing HPC platforms for fast numerical simulations.
     
  • Improving VASP* Materials Simulation Performance by Fedor Vasilev, Dmitry Sivkov, and Jeongnim Kim
    Using the latest Intel® Software Development Tools to make more efficient use of hardware.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 31, January 2018

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Happy New Year, Happy Parallel Computing, by Henry A. Gabb
    Henry A. Gabb is a longtime high-performance and parallel computing practitioner who has published numerous articles on parallel programming.
     
  • FPGA Programming with the OpenCL™ Platform, by James Reinders and Tom Hill
    Knowing how to program an FPGA is a skill you need―and here’s how to start.
     
  • Accelerating the Eigen Math Library for Automated Driving Workloads, by Steena Monteiro and Gaurav Bansal
    Meeting the need for speed with Intel® Math Kernel Library.
     
  • Speeding Algebra Computations with the Intel® Math Kernel Library Vectorized Compact Matrix Functions, by Kirana Bergstrom, Eugene Chereshnev, and Timothy B. Costa
    Maximizing the performance benefits of the compact data layout.
     
  • Boosting Java* Performance in Big Data Applications, by Kumar Shiv and Rahul Kandu
    How new enhancements enable faster and better numerical computing.
     
  • Gaining Performance Insights Using the Intel® Advisor Python* API, by Kevin O’Leary and Egor Kazachkov
    Getting good data to make code tuning decisions.
     
  • Welcome to the Intel® AI Academy, by Niven Singh
    AI education for all.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 30, October 2017

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Meet Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018, by Henry A. Gabb
    Henry A. Gabb is a long-time high-performance and parallel computing practitioner and has published numerous articles on parallel programming.
     
  • Driving Code Performance with Intel® Advisor’s Flow Graph Analyzer, by Vasanth Tovinkere, Pablo Reble, Farshad Akhbari, and Palanivel Guruvareddiar
    Optimizing performance for an autonomous driving application.
     
  • Welcome to the Adult World, OpenMP*, by Barbara Chapman
    After 20 years, it’s more relevant than ever.
     
  • Enabling FPGAs for Software Developers, by Bernhard Friebe, and James Reinders
    Boosting efficiency and performance for automotive, networking, and cloud computing.
     
  • Modernize Your Code for Performance, Portability, and Scalability, by Jackson Marusarz
    What’s new in Intel® Parallel Studio XE.
     
  • Dealing with Outliers, by Oleg Kremnyov, Mikhail Averbukh, and Ivan Kuzmin
    How to find fraudulent transactions in a real-world dataset.
     
  • Tuning for Success with the Latest SIMD Extensions and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512, by Xinmin Tian, Hideki Saito, Sergey Kozhukhov, and Nikolay Panchenko
    Best practices for taking advantage of the latest architectural features.
     
  • Effectively Using Your Whole Cluster, by Rama Kishan Malladi
    Optimizing SPECFEM3D_GLOBE* performance on Intel® architecture.
     
  • Is Your Cluster Healthy?, by Brock A. Taylor
    Must-have cluster diagnostics in Intel® Cluster Checker.
     
  • Optimizing HPC Clusters, by Michael Hebenstreit
    Enabling on-demand BIOS configuration changes in HPC clusters.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 29, July 2017

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Old and New, by Henry A. Gabb
    Henry A. Gabb is a longtime high-performance and parallel computing practitioner and has published numerous articles on parallel programming.
     
  • Tuning Autonomous Driving Using Intel® System Studio, by Lavanya Chockalingam
    Intel® GO™ Automotive SDK offers automotive solution developers an integrated solutions environment.
     
  • OpenMP* Is Turning 20!, by Bronis R. de Supinski
    Making parallel programming accessible to C/C++ and Fortran programmers.
     
  • Julia*: A High-Level Language for Supercomputing, by Ranjan Anantharaman, Viral Shah, and Alan Edelman
    The Julia Project continues to break new boundaries in scientific computing.
     
  • Vectorization Becomes Important—Again, by Robert H. Dodds Jr.
    Open source code WARP3D exemplifies renewed interest in vectorization.
     
  • Building Fast Data Compression Code for Cloud and Edge Applications, by Chao Yu and Sergey Khlystov
    How to optimize your compression with Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP).
     
  • MySQL* Optimization with Intel® C++ Compiler, by Huixiang Tao, Ying Hu, and Ming Gao
    Leverage MySQL* to deliver peak service.
     
  • Accelerating Linear Regression in R* with Intel® DAAL, by Steena Monteiro and Shaojuan Zhu
    Make better predictions with this highly optimized open source package.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 28, April 2017

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Parallel Languages, Language Extensions, and Application Frameworks, by Henry A. Gabb
    Henry A. Gabb is a long-time high-performance and parallel computing practitioner and has published numerous articles on parallel programming.
     
  • Parallel STL: Boosting Performance of C++ STL Code, by Vladimir Polin and Mikhail Dvorskiy
    C++ and the evolution toward natively parallel languages.
     
  • Happy 20th Birthday, OpenMP*, by Rob Farber
    Making parallel programming accessible to C/C++ and Fortran programmers—and providing a software path to exascale computation.
     
  • Solving Real-World Machine Learning Problems with Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library, by Oleg Kremnyov, Ivan Kuzmin, and Gennady Fedorov
    Models are put to the test in Kaggle* competitions.
     
  • HPC with R*: The Basics, by Drew Schmidt
    Satisfying the need for speed in data analytics,
     
  • BigDL: Optimized Deep Learning on Apache Spark*, by Jason Dai and Radhika Rangarajan
    Making deep learning more accessible,

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 27, January 2017

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: The Changing HPC Landscape Still Looks the Same, by Henry A. Gabb
    Henry A. Gabb is a long-time high-performance and parallel computing practitioner and has published numerous articles on parallel programming.
     
  • The Present and Future of the OpenMP* API Specification, by Michael Klemm, Alejandro Duran, Ravi Narayanaswamy, Xinmin Tian, and Terry Wilmarth
    How the gold standard parallel programming language has improved with each new version.
     
  • Reducing Packing Overhead in Matrix-Matrix Multiplication, by Kazushige Goto, Murat Efe Guney, and Sarah Knepper
    Improve performance on multicore and many-core Intel® architectures, particularly for deep neural networks.
     
  • Identify Scalability Problems in Parallel Applications, by Vladimir Tsymbal
    How to improve scalability for Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processors using new Intel® VTune™ Amplifier memory analysis.
     
  • Vectorization Opportunities for Improved Performance with Intel® AVX-512, by Martyn Corden
    Examples of how Intel® Compilers can vectorize and speed up loops.
     
  • Intel® Advisor Roofline Analysis, by Kevin O’Leary, Ilyas Gazizov, Alexandra Shinsel, Zakhar Matveev, and Dmitry Petunin
    A new way to visualize performance optimization trade-offs.
     
  • Intel-Powered Deep Learning Frameworks, by Pubudu Silva
    Your path to deeper insights.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 26, October 2016

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: What Will Machines Learn from You?, by Mike Lee
     
  • Modernize Your Code for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processors, by Yolanda Chen and Udit Patidar
    Explore new Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2017 capabilities
     
  • Unleash the Power of Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning, by Vadim Pirogov, Ivan Kuzmin, and Sarah Knepper
    Solve big data era application challenges with Intel® Performance Libraries.
     
  • Overcome Python* Performance Barriers for Machine Learning, by Vasily Litvinov, Viktoriya Fedotova, Anton Malakhov, Aleksei Fedotov, Ruslan Israfilov, and Christopher Hogan
    Accelerate and optimize Python* machine learning applications.
     
  • Profiling Java* and Python* Code using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier, by Sukruv Hv
    Get more CPU capability for Java*- and Python*-based applications
     
  • Lightning-Fast R* Machine Learning Algorithms, by Zhang Zhang
    Get results with the Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library and the latest Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor
     
  • A Performance Library for Data Analytics and Machine Learning, by Shaojuan Zhu
    See how the Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library impacts C++ coding for handwritten digit recognition.
     
  • MeritData Speeds Up its Tempo* Big Data Platform Using Intel® High-Performance Libraries, by Jin Qiang, Ying Hu, and Ning Wang
    Case study finds performance improvements and potential for big data algorithms and visualization.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 25, June 2016

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: Democratization of HPC, by James Reiders
    James Reinders, an expert on parallel programming, is coauthor of the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor High Performance Programming—Knights Landing Edition.
     
  • Supercharging Python* with Intel and Anaconda* for Open Data Science, by Travis Oliphant
    The technologies that promise to tackle Big Data challenges.
     
  • Getting Your Python* Code to Run Faster Using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE, by Kevin O’Leary
    Providing line-level profiling information with very low overhead.
     
  • Parallel Programming with Intel® MPI Library in Python*, by Artem Ryabov and Alexey Malhanov
    Guidelines and tools for improving performance.
     
  • The Other Side of the Chip, by Robert Ioffe
    Using Intel® Processor Graphics for Compute with OpenCL™.
     
  • A Runtime-Generated Fast Fourier Transform for Intel® Processor Graphics, by Dan Petre, Adam T. Lake, and Allen Hux
    Optimizing FFT without increasing complexity.
     
  • Indirect Calls and Virtual Functions Calls: Vectorization with Intel® C/C++ 17.0 Compilers, by Hideki Saito, Serge Preis, Sergey Kozhukhov, Xinmin Tian, Clark Nelson, Jennifer Yu, Sergey Maslov, and Udit Patidar
    The newest Intel® C++ Compiler introduces support for indirectly calling a SIMD-enabled function in a vectorized fashion.
     
  • Optimizing an Illegal Image Filter System, by Yueqiang Lu, Ying Hu, and Huaqiang Wang
    Tencent doubles the speed of its illegal image filter system using a SIMD instruction set and Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives.

Parallel Universe Magazine - Special Issue, June 2016

Contents:

  • Letter from the Editor: From Hatching to Soaring: Intel® TBB, by James Reinders
    James Reinders, an expert on parallel programming, is coauthor of the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor High Performance Programming – Knights Landing Edition (June 2016), and coeditor of the recent High Performance Parallel Programming Pearls Volumes One and Two (2014 and 2015).
     
  • The Genesis and Evolution of Intel® Threading Building Blocks, by Arch D. Robison
    A decade after the introduction of Intel Threading Building Blocks, the original architect shares his perspective.
     
  • A Tale of Two High-Performance Libraries, by Vipin Kumar E.K.
    How Intel® Math Kernel Library and Intel® Threading Building Blocks work together to improve performance.
     
  • Heterogeneous Programming with Intel® Threading Building Blocks, by Alexei Katranov, Oleg Loginov, and Michael Voss
    With new features, Intel® Threading Building Blocks can coordinate the execution of computations across multiple devices.
     
  • Preparing for a Many-Core Future, by Kevin O’Leary, Ben Langmead, John O’Neill, and Alexey Kukanov
    Johns Hopkins University adds multicore parallelism to increase performance of its Bowtie 2* application.
     
  • Leading and Following the C++ Standard, by Alexei Katranov
    Intel® Threading Building Blocks adheres tightly to the C++ standard where it can—and paves the way for supporting parallelism best.
     
  • Intel® Threading Building Blocks: Toward the Future, by Alexey Kukanov
    The architect of Intel® Threading Building Blocks shares thoughts on the opportunities ahead.

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