Intel Corporation organized today in Cairo the software seminar “Developing for Multi-core,” dedicated to preparing independent software vendors (ISVs) for migrating their applications to the multi-core processing environment.
The seminar is part of Intel’s global effort to help the software developers community around the world in migrating the current applications and developing new software that can fully take advantage of multi-core processing. Organized in Moscow, Bucharest, and Cairo the event is targeted at 12,000 programmers. In Cairo partnering companies are ISIS and Shadi Systems. It was noticed that the seminar received a great number of young Egyptian developers including female ones, which was described by the organizers as a "massive attendance" comparing to Moscow and Bucharest's seminars.
“This is a great opportunity for software developers to familiarize themselves with Intel’s roadmap for multi-core products, with the concepts of parallelism and multiprocessing, but also with the principal tools developed by Intel to help the ISV community in migrating applications to multi-core,” said Karim Fahmy, General Manager for Intel Egypt, LEVANT and North Africa.
The three demos presented by Intel during the event highlighted the power of Intel software tools such as vTune, Thread Checker and Thread Profile in adding and improving threaded performance to already existing applications, while the training sessions presented best practices in threading operations and in identifying and avoiding common threading errors.
“Multi-core processing is the future of computing activities for both home and business users. By helping the ISV community in preparing the applications able to run on tomorrow's PCs, Intel makes another step in its plan to create new and innovative usage models and ultimately improving the user experience,” said Tamer El Sahayeb, Developer Relations Manager (SSG) Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
Multi-core processing is a key element of Intel’s new strategy focused on the platform concept. By providing users with superior performance level, reduced energy consumption and multi-tasking efficiency, multi-core processors increase the computing experience of both home and business users.
Multi-core processing architecture is placing two or more of Intel’s CPUs on the same chip. By dividing the processing load between two or several execution cores, a multi-core processor can execute several tasks within the same tick of the internal clock, thus providing increased performance for the end user. Multi-core processing can dramatically improve the reaction time of a PC where two or several applications are used in the same time or where background applications compete for the same processing resources.
In order to fully take advantage of multi-core functionalities, software running on multi-core processing systems requires “thread parallelism” - feature acquired with the help of software development tools such as vTune, Thread Checker and Thread Profile.
Today, multiple groups at Intel are coming together to drive the multi-core initiative forward. Foremost among them is Intel’s Software and Solutions Group (SSG), that works with third-party software developers and solution developers worldwide to help their designs get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures and ultimately deliver great value to end users.
Through SSG, Intel provides software developers with access to HT Technology-based development platforms, and subsequently, to multi-core technology-based development platforms. SSG also offers a robust set of threading tools, compilers and other performance-tuning tool kits and white papers that help enable software developers to implement thread-level parallelism enhancements within their code.
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