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July 25, 2007
Intel: Outfitting for Multi-core Parallelism
Listining to James Reinders from Intel talking about some of the work they are doing on threading to get the most of your hardward.
A fun drama ensues, the marketing guy starts the talk about the new threading tools and shows that there is a new book that goes along with the software package and you can get both for $299. Another Intel guy jumps on stage and takes control of the presentation saying something to the effect that at an open source conference you can't sell stuff. End result is that the slide is changed to show that the threading work is now open source (site).
Intel has done a lot on the Linux kernel, but want to be more involved in open source. A slide shows a list of the Intel open source contributions including graphics, drivers, power management etc.
The presention is somewhat technical, and definitely focused on folks interested in threading technology.
Posted by mike at July 25, 2007 9:19 AM