May 12, 2008
Solving the Multicore Programming Problem
Processor raw speed gains are hitting a brick wall of power consumption. The voracious appetite for performance now must be sated through the use of multiple CPUs. The problem: multicores are hard to program. Chuck Moore of AMD said "To make effective use of multicore hardware today, you need a PhD in computer science." Learn how Gedae expands the pool of multicore developers while offering unrivaled performance and productivity. Event Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
Solving the Multicore Programming Problem
Date / Time
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Duration
60 minutes
Presented By
Dr. Dobb's Journal Vendor Perspectives NetSeminar
Overview:
Processor raw speed gains are hitting a brick wall of power. The voracious appetite for performance now has to be sated through the use of multiple CPUs. Good software for single core processors has always been hard to write. The complexity jump demanded by multicore parallelism just compounds an already difficult task. Currently the only solution in sight rests in the hands of skilled developers - a resource that cannot service demand.
"The industry is in a little bit of a panic about how to program multicore processors…" said Chuck Moore, a senior fellow at AMD now serving as chief architect of the company's accelerated computing initiative. ”To make effective use of multicore hardware today, you need a PhD in computer science.”
Simply put, there isn’t the human capacity to produce the required software. Worse still, software for each architecture must be developed separately, usually using disparate development teams with a dedicated approach. Even if the market supports the cost of hand-coding these architectures, yet another generation of software will be inextricably tied to the hardware it was initially created for.
James Reinders, Chief Evangelist and Director of Marketing and Business Development for Intel Software Products has his own take on what the solution is and is not.
"What we won't see” Reinders says, “is automatic parallelism [realizing] the dream of some to have the compiler do it all. "The Holy Grail,” Reinders continues, would "let me express my parallelism without coding the details."
In this webinar, we will discuss how Gedae addresses and effectively solves Reinders’ problem.
Multicores need a software development tool and process that:
1) produces efficient and reliable software, whether the target is multicore or multiprocessor based,
2) maintains or improves developer productivity compared with single core processors,
3) targets a broad range of single, multi- and many-core processors using a platform independent model, and
4) applies to all compute intense algorithms and applications, regardless of their area of application.
Gedae has been tested and proven effective on real world deployed multiprocessor applications achieving the most demanding real-time performances while delivering economy at the same time.
To learn about this product and how Gedae can help you access the power of multicore and multiple processors sign up for our webinar. See a walk through of a complete development session building a parallel application which achieves hand optimized performance for X86 and Cell/B.E. processors. We will demonstrate two implementations of the same application, illustrating the power of the Gedae tool.
Presenter:
William I. Lundgren — President and CEO, Gedae, Inc.
