Intel updates parallel development tool

By Paul Krill

July 22, 2008 12:00 PM ET

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InfoWorld - Intel Corp. plans to unveil on Tuesday at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., what it described as a substantial upgrade to Intel Threading Building Blocks.

TBB 2.1, a tool that features a C++ template library for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, enables developers to add parallelism to C++.

TBB helps developers implement threading in applications and improves application performance on multicore processors, Intel said. Version 2.1 of TBB makes it easier to apply the tool to new uses such as graphical user interfaces, artificial intelligence and network input/output.

Task cancellation and exception handling are supported in this latest version, and performance has been improved through the use of algorithms and containers, according to the company. The release also features improved components for task scheduling and memory allocation. In addition, Intel said that ease of use has been boosted through enhanced application programming interfaces.

An affinity partitioner in Version 2.1 improves performance in chained parallel operations, while a more efficient cache also is highlighted, said Intel.

Bundled in most Linux operating systems and functioning with Sun Solaris, the commercial product will be available for download on Wednesday. An open-source version also will be offered.

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