Issue 5 - The Parallel Universe - November 2010

Editorial Intro - James Reinders

This issue of The Parallel Universe magazine focuses on the latest Intel® software developer tools that help us tap into the performance offered by today's computers.

From a technology standpoint, the hardware has never been more complex. Even a single feature such as parallelism is present at every level of the computer architecture: superscalar processors with expanding issue rates, SIMD instructions with expanding widths, processors with expanding numbers of cores, and systems with expanding numbers of processors.

As systems become more complex, our tools for software developers have evolved to help software developers. Your feedback has been most helpful. Over the past year we've taken major strides in delivering developer tools for existing and emerging hardware, while simplifying the tools you need for high performance. Our focus has been to offer choice, protect your software investments, and help you scale forward to emerging and future hardware.