Parallelism helps applications make the best use of processors on single or multiple devices. However, parallelism implementation itself can prove a challenging task. In this video, Mike Voss, ...

With modern processors that contain a large number of cores, to get maximum performance it is necessary to structure an application to use as many cores as possible. Explicitly developing a program to ...

The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library was released this week as open source under the GPLv2 (plus runtime exception) license. The library makes it much easier for programmers to take ...

Intel announced Tuesday the release of Threading Building Blocks 2.0 as both an open source and commercial product. The company also launched a Web site that establishes an open source project around ...

The second revision of Intel’s Thread Building Block (TBB) product was threefold. First, there was a new version of TBB with its collection of improvements and bug fixes. The second was the move to ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...

The release of Intel's Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) coincides with the company's announcement to take it open source. Both are significant announcements. TBB is designed to make efficient use of ...

Last week, Intel officially released the source code of Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 2.0, a C++ template library that facilitates a task-oriented approach to parallelism. One day before the public ...

CARY, N.C., August 4, 2009 — Epic Games, Inc. today announced that Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) 2.2 has been incorporated into Unreal Engine 3. The newly released version of the ...

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