Multicore Testing Requires Real Parallelism to Happen – Go Parallel
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Testing an application prepared to run concurrent code can become a nightmare for old-fashioned testing platforms. Multicore testing requires new techniques, new expertise and new hardware. For example, you cannot guarantee a parallelized application’s accuracy testing it on computers with single core microprocessors.
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Measuring Parallelism: How Much Power Are You Wasting?
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Management professionals love metrics. However, they don’t like the idea to optimize applications that are currently running. Thus, what about showing them some metrics about the power that they are wasting using a free tool?
Using Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading and multicore metrics
This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded C# application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.
For more information about Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1, visit: http://software.intel.com/
The application also uses AForge.NET imaging framework. For more information about AForge.NET, visit: http://www.aforgenet.com
For more information about .Net Parallel Extensions, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx
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I am researching about parallel programming, multiprocessor and multicore since 1997. My last research is a new Packt’s book, www.packtpub.com. Book’s page: http://www.packtpub.com/beginners-guide-for-C-sharp-2008-and-2005-threaded-programming/book. I’ve been working with computers since I was eight. I began programming with the legendary Texas TI-99/4A and Commodore 64 home computers in the early 80s. I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, graduated with honors, and an MBA (Master in Business Administration), graduated with an outstanding thesis. I have worked as developer, architect, and project manager for many companies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was project manager in one of the most important mortgage loan banks in Latin America for several years. Now, I am an independent IT consultant, and a freelance author. I am always researching about new technologies and writing about them. I am the author of more than 40 books in Spanish about computer science, modern hardware, programming, systems development, software architecture, business applications, balanced scorecard applications, IT project management, Internet, and electronics, published by Editorial HASA, http://www.hasa.com.ar and Grupo Noriega Editores. You can reach me at gastonhillar@hotmail.com
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