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Intel launches their largest open source effort ever: Thread Building Blocks 2.0. This is the first time the company has open-sourced a commercial product, but necessity is the mother of invention.
Arstechnica wrote:
Intel clearly wants to position TBB as the standard tool for writing multithreaded code, as opposed to OpenMP, and Windows and POSIX threads. The company claims that the project as a whole is committed to processor-, compiler-, and OS-independence, and they've launched a new site for the open-source version: threadbuildingblocks.org. The site has all the typical open-source project aspects, like a CVS, forums, mailing lists, and so on, and Intel is currently in the process of adding engineers to it. TBB 2.0 currently runs on non-Intel hardware, like the G5, and on operating systems from Solaris to Linux. It also works with multiple compilers, including Intel's own in-house compiler and gcc.
James Reinders, chief evangelist and director of Marketing for Intel, has written an O'Reilly book on TBB 2.0, so Intel is announcing that as well. The book has a foreword by Adobe's Alexander Stepanov, and there's a free chapter available for download for anyone who wants to learn more about the project.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514808/chapter/index.html
Arstechnica wrote:
The new open-source project is just one of a number of Intel projects related to making parallelism easier for programmers to find and use. At the recent Research@Intel day, the company also showed off a project called CT, which is an alternative to OpenMP that aims to make it easier to express data-level parallelism. In fact, most of the projects that Intel showed off at the research day were actually software projects that dealt with parallelism in some form or another. Having bet the company on parallelism, Intel is doing everything it can to see that programmers are equipped to take advantage of multicore and many-core.
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