April 18, 2013: Join the TBB Flow Graph Webinar!
Whether you are new to TBB or a TBB expert, come hear Michael Voss, Architect of the Intel® TBB flow graph, talk about the useful flow graph feature on May 7th @ 9:00 AM PST. Register here.
Title: Creating parallel reactive and streaming applications with the Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) flow graph
The flow graph feature available in Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) allows users to easily create both dependence graphs and reactive, messaging passing graphs that execute on top of Intel TBB tasks. Users programmatically create nodes and edges that express the computations performed by their application and the dependencies between these computations. The Intel TBB library is then able to exploit the parallelism that is implicit in the graph structure, and the resources available on the target machine, to speed up the application. Flow graphs are applicable across a wide range of domains, including media, gaming, finance, portable/low-power computing and technical computing. This 1-hour webinar will present a quick introduction to the Intel® Threading Building Blocks library, followed by a more complete description of the flow graph feature. Attendees will be walked through the details of a “Hello World” flow graph, and then will be shown several more complex examples that demonstrate the power and flexibility of this parallel programming abstraction.
Check out other webinars coming up this spring.
April 1, 2013: Intel® TBB for Android - New Community Preview Feature!
The latest Intel® TBB 4.1 update 3 contains binary files for Android* application development. Access the files by downloading the Linux* OS package on the Download page. Also check out the IDZ blog about how to start using Intel TBB library with Android applications.
Feedback? Please let us know.
March 28, 2013: Intel® TBB 4.1 update 3 released
Files are available in the stable releases section. Download it!
Find out more about the changes on our forum.
March 20, 2013: Intel® TBB and Windows Store* applications
Learn more about how to start using the Intel TBB library with Windows Store* applications.
Also available - the IDZ blog in Portuguese.
March 14, 2013: New video about the flow graph feature
New video about TBB's flow graph
This video will introduce you to the flow graph feature in Intel® TBB and provide examples of how it can be used. The flow graph feature provides a flexible and convenient API for parallel reactive and streaming applications.
February 15, 2013: Intel® TBB and Android* applications
Check out the IDZ blog about how to start using Intel TBB library with Android* applications.
February 7, 2013: Intel® TBB 4.1 update 2 released
Files are available in the stable releases section. Download it!
Find out more about the changes/comments on our forum.
February 6, 2013: Intel® TBB and Windows Store* applications
Check out the IDZ blog about how to start using Intel TBB library with Windows Store* applications.
January 7, 2013: Students use TBB to gain 15-20% performance
USC undergraduate students use TBB in their game development and realize an average performance increase of 15‒20%. Learn More
November 21, 2012: Creating Starter and Continuing Graph Nodes with TBB
Check out the Go Parallel blog about how to start using TBB's flow graph feature.
September 5, 2012: Intel® Threading Building Blocks 4.1 Available Today
Files are available in the stable releases. Download it!
More changes/comments on our forum.
Some CHANGES:
- _WIN32_WINNT must be set to 0x0501 or greater in order to use TBB on Microsoft* Windows*.
- parallel_deterministic_reduce template function is fully supported.
- TBB headers can be used with C++0x/C++11 mode (-std=c++0x) of GCC and Intel(R) Compiler.
- C++11 std::make_exception_ptr is used where available, instead of std::copy_exception from earlier C++0x implementations.
- Improvements in the TBB allocator to reduce extra memory consumption.
- Partial refactoring of the task scheduler data structures.
- TBB examples allow more flexible specification of the thread number, including arithmetic and geometric progression.
August 20, 2012: Driving Innovation in Crowd Simulation with Intel® TBB
Learn how Golaem Crowd* uses Intel® TBB, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE and Intel® Inspector XE to provide the VFX and animation industries with high-performance tools for populating 3D worlds with visually compelling and believable virtual humans.
August 16, 2012: Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem
For over two decades, Intel’s contributions to open-source projects have helped ensure that a breadth of solutions run exceptionally well. Learn more about our other open source projects.
June 28, 2012: TBB featured in Visual Adrenline Magazine Issue 12
Check out the Visual Adrenline Magazine Issue 12! It includes a cool article explaining how TBB helped Geomerics increase performance and parallelize many of the geometry preprocessing tasks.
May 12, 2012: New documentation
We are glad to inform you that Intel® TBB Reference Manual is available in HTML format. Also doxygen documentation was updated on the site. Please update bookmarks! And, as usual, all PDFs were synchronized with the latest update.
April 25, 2012: Case Study: Parallelizing a Recursive Problem with Intel® Threading Building Blocks
Read a case study about how DreamWorks Animation uses Intel TBB.
October 4, 2011: OPEN CASCADE and Intel TBB
OPEN CASCADE, a CAD/CAE software vendor and solution provider, recently adopted Intel TBB to enable their technology platform
for multicore processors. They chose Intel TBB for its parallel algorithms, scalable memory allocator, and ease of integration. Open
CASCADE Technology public version 6.5 was released in March 2011, making the Intel TBB version available to their entire open
source community.
September 13, 2011: Using Intel® TBB 4.0 features to simplify Dining Philosophers
Intel recently released the 4.0 version of TBB, in which most of the flow::graph Community Preview features from 3.0 have been made standard features, and some new nodes have been added as Community Preview features. The time has come to revisit the Dining Philosophers program.
