Parallelism can be smooth as Cilk? (pronounced “Silk”)

If you’ve visited cilk.com today, you see that the Cilk engineering team has joined Intel. I was surprised how fast I’ve gotten questions from a note on the Cilk web site on a Friday afternoon – it happened only minutes after the posting!  I’ve been a follower of Cilk technology for some time now – and it is exciting to have the opportunity to work with the team that is joining us! Working together we will result in even more options for parallel programming!

Cilk technology will complement other methods we have had great success with – including OpenMP and Intel Threading Building Blocks. We see great opportunities for Cilk to integrate with our parallel tools very well including Intel Parallel Studio.

Cilk technology offers parallel extensions that are tightly tied into a compiler. This has pluses and minuses when compared with compiler independent methods likes Intel Threading Building Blocks which is also inspired by the original Cilk research at MIT. Having both is better than either alone, and both will have strong followings. OpenMP and our Ct technology offer even more opportunities.

As it says on cilk.com, we encourage everyone to visit us at the Intel Developer Forum September 22-24, 2009 in San Francisco. Find me there at our booth… and we’ll talk!

Microsoft: In the wake of last week's developments, as well as continuing feedback on Windows 7 E that we have received from computer manufacturers and other business partners, I'm pleased to report that we will ship the same version of Windows 7 in Europe in October that we will ship in the rest of the world.

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Microsoft kills Windows 7 E Editions

Microsoft: In the wake of last week's developments, as well as continuing feedback on Windows 7 E that we have received from computer manufacturers and other business partners, I'm pleased to report that we will ship the same version of Windows 7 in Europe in October that we will ship in the rest of the world. One reason we decided not to ship Windows 7 'E' is concerns raised by computer manufacturers and partners. Several worried about the complexity of changing the version of Windows that we ship in Europe if our ballot screen proposal is ultimately accepted by the Commission and we stop selling Windows 7 'E'

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Microsoft kills Windows 7 E Editions

Here comes another video on supply chain risk which I promise is going to be the last for a while (I am not obsessed with this area; it's just that it's such an importnat issue). Here, Drew Hofler, the supply chain guru talks about the effect of CIT companies going bankrupt on the whole value chain of suppliers which many of them are small and medium size.

Sort of traditional options which he proposes are alternatives such as tapping into community banks and etc. but …

This is the last part of the video speech from Robert Hanfield on managing risk in supply chains. I just included this so that you can watch the whole talk; in general it's a short question and answer and then preparation for a post-talk excercise.

Overall what I liked about the video is the general structure of the workshop proposed by Dr. Hanfield at the end: I think all companies which want to jump in this area can go through such short excercises with senior …