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Intel® PBB
Intel PBB refers to Intel® Parallel Building Blocks, a comprehensive and complementary set of programming constructs that allows you to mix and match new arallel models within an application to suit your environment/application and algorithms. Intel PBB includes Intel® Threading Building Blocks, Intel® Cilk
Plus, and Intel® Array Building Blocks.
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VALUE FOR CUSTOMERS
Greater Ease of Use:
The easiest way to make software applications parallel to take advantage of multicore hardware.
Save Money:
The best way to reduce serial and parallel errors that cost more to fi x after release.
Faster Time to Market, Increased Productivity:
The fastest way to make applications parallel, debug, and optimize for performance.
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:
Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010* Standard Edition (or higher edition), Microsoft Visual Studio 2008* Standard Edition (or higher edition), or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005* Standard Edition (or higher edition) with C++ and "x64 Compiler and Tools" components installed.
Operating Systems:
Windows Vista*, Windows XP*, Windows Server*
Supported Languages:
C and C++ (native not managed code).
Hardware Platforms:
IA-32 or Intel® 64 architecture processor supporting the Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (Intel® SSE2) instructions (Intel® Pentium 4 processor or later, or compatible non-Intel processor).
LICENSING / SUPPORT / UPGRADES & UPDATES
License Types
Single User-Product is priced on a"per individual user" basis (named user). What you will need to know: how many individual developers require product licenses.
Intel® Volume Sales Program-Minimum of 10 licenses; get access to Intel`s Web-based
enterprise license management tool. Discounting based on earned points.
Support Types
Community Support (user forum)-Take advantage of the collective knowledge of users and Intel ® engineers at no cost.
Intel® Parallel Studio Technical Support Incident-Secure/private technical support via the Web on a per-incident fee.
Intel® Parallel Studio Premier Assurance-Optional for Intel® Volume Sales Program (Enterprise License) only. Includes one technical support plus version upgrades and
updates for 12 months for a fee.
Product Upgrades
Owners of the original Intel Parallel Studio can upgrade for free.
Product Updates
Version updates of that product are available at no cost.
Multicore Processor
A multicore processor (or CPU) combines two  or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit (IC). A quad-core processor (e.g.,"Intel® CoreTM2 Quad") contains four cores. A multicore microprocessor implements multiprocessing in a single physical package. The number of cores in a CPU is expected to continue to grow.
Parallelism
As multicore CPUs have the ability to run different processes simultaneously, parallelism is a way for
one application to execute different tasks in parallel (instead of "serial"), each on a different core, thereby taking advantage of the power of multicore CPUs.
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that translates text written in a computer language (the source code) into another computer language (the target language). The output is usually the executable program.
C++
C++ is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language widely used to develop performance and data-hungry applications (multimedia, games, databases, etc.).
Library
A library is a collection of hyper-optimized code modules ("routines") addressing specifi c topics that developers can include in their application without the need to "reinvent the wheel."
Intel® IPP
An abbreviation of Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives, it is a collection of multimedia and dataoriented routines (image, sound, signal, compression, cryptography). It is compatible with C++ and Fortran* compilers as well as other compilers (Microsoft, GCC).
Intel® TBB
Intel® TBB, or Intel® Threading Building Blocks, is a C++ template library for writing software programs that take advantage of multicore processors. The library consists of data structures and algorithms that allow a programmer to avoid complications arising from the use of native threading packages such as POSIX* or Windows* threads.
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