Intel Array Building Blocks
{{Short description|C++ programming library developed by Intel Corporation}}
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|released = May 17, 2010
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Intel Array Building Blocks (also known as ArBB) was a C++ library developed by Intel Corporation for exploiting data parallel portions of programs to take advantage of multi-core processors, graphics processing units and Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture processors. ArBB provides a generalized vector parallel programming solution designed to avoid direct dependencies on particular low-level parallelism mechanisms or hardware architectures. ArBB is oriented to applications that require data-intensive mathematical computations. By default, ArBB programs cannot create data races or deadlocks.
History
Intel Ct was a parallel programming model developed by Intel in 2007 for its future multi-core processors as part of the Tera-Scale research program.[http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/09/the_many_flavors_of_data_paral.php "The Many Flavors of Data Parallelism"], Anwar Ghuloum (2007-09-06). Retrieved on 2010-09-14. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412162859/http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/09/the_many_flavors_of_data_paral.php |date=April 12, 2010 }} In April 2009, Intel announced that "Ct [is] to appear in programmer tools by end of the year".[http://insidehpc.com/2009/04/08/intels-ct-to-appear-in-programmer-tools-by-end-of-the-year/ "Intel’s Ct to appear in programmer tools by end of the year"], insideHPC (2009-04-08). Retrieved on 2010-09-14. On August 19, 2009, Intel acquired RapidMind, a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.[http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/19/rapidmind-intel/ "RapidMind + Intel"], Intel Blog (2009-08-19). Retrieved on 2010-09-14. In September 2010, Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB) were introduced as the result of the merger of Intel Ct and RapidMind technologies.[http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Intel-Flexes-Parallel-Programming-Muscles-102084438.html "Intel Flexes Parallel Programming Muscles"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906030803/http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Intel-Flexes-Parallel-Programming-Muscles-102084438.html |date=2010-09-06 }}, HPCwire (2010-09-02). Retrieved on 2010-09-14.[http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/parallel-studio-2011-now-we-know-what-ha/228800476 "Parallel Studio 2011: Now We Know What Happened to Ct, Cilk++, and RapidMind"], Dr. Dobb's Journal (2012-08-06). Retrieved on 2010-09-14. The first version of ArBB supported Microsoft Windows and Linux, and Intel, Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC C++ compilers.
In October 2012 the project was discontinued in favour of other Intel projects: Cilk Plus and Threading Building Blocks.[http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-array-building-blocks "Intel® Array Building Blocks"] Intel Article. Retrieved on 2013-09-04.
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