Intel shows Visual Studio multi-threaded way
Intel today released the long-awaited beta version of its Parallel Studio development tools, available as a free download.
This set of plug-ins to Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) promises to help ease developers into the now-standard world of multi-threaded applications running on multi-core processors.
The Studio is designed to support "forward scaling" - meaning that code built with it will be be optimized not only for current multi-threaded, multi-core processors, but also for future ones as well. Intel isn't saying exactly what the range of that future might be, but they did say that its half-GPU, half-CPU Larrabee processor, which is still in Intel's labs, will be supported.
Mac OS X and Linux users, however, are left out of this beta, which is only for Windows developers - although Intel does note that "Developers for Linux and Mac OS will find that our current products for Linux and Mac OS are worth looking at today." No surprise there.
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