Hi – it’s Tuesday, March 29 and this is show #103. We’ve been away for nearly a month as the film crew has been galivanting all over the place – from Barcelona to San Francisco. Bet they’re glad to be back in the Studio. I know I’m glad – we can return to the routine!……… We’ve got an interesting show planned for today – Drs Martin Margala and Wim Vanderbauwhede are here to talk about their project – a high-throughput DCT algorithm  using over 1000 processors. But first, the news: If you haven’t heard about it, The Intel Concurrency Checker is a free software assessment tool that Intel is offering to developers to help measure the level of concurrency that an application has.  When you use the tool and upload your code file to Intel, you’ll get an anonymous comparison of how the app’s measurement compares to other applications that were uploaded. It will also  provide suggested programming resources that a developer could use to help improve that app.  Want to see how other companies have benefitted – You can read case studies on four developer companies that have used the Intel Concurrency Checker.  To find them: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/case-studies-intel-concurrency-checker Many viewers have asked if there will be a Threading Challenge 2011 – The answer is Yes! The contest will start April 18 – details will be on the home page soon – so keep checking back for details – software.intel.com/parallel. We had out PP Community Meetup last week in Santa Clara – thanks to all the guests who braved the really wet weather – and there were a lot – they made it a terrific event.  We gave away a couple of Netbooks, had some interesting demos and an excellent presentation, by Intel Engineers Rich Hubbard and Noah Clemons,  on the workings of the 2 nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family – AKA SandyBridge. We’ve captured the entire presentation on video and we will post it as soon as it’s available. We’ve got other videos from the meetup to post as well. Were you there – You might see yourself on a video or two. Let me tell you about today’s guests: Dr. Wim A. Vanderbauwhede received a PhD in Electrotechnical Engineering from the University of Gent, Belgium in 1996. He is a Lecturer (US equiv. Associate Professor) at the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow, which he joined in 2004. His research interests include programming concepts and architectures for many-core Systems-on-Chip, coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable systems and FPGAs. His research has resulted in over 50 refereed conference and journal papers. Before returning to academic research, Dr Vanderbauwhede was an ASIC Design Engineer and Senior Technology R&D Engineer for Alcatel Microelectronics. Wimvanderbauwhede Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede School of Computing Science University of Glasgow 18 Lilybank Gardens, S122 Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wim Prof. Martin Margala, Ph.D. has been an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Co-Director of the Advanced Electronics Technology Center (AETC) since 2007. Between 1997 and 2006 he was was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Cnada and the University of Rochester, NY respectively. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta in the spring of 1998. He’s a senior member of IEEE with 160 journal and peer reviewed conference publications in the areas of Design for Testability of High Frequency Circuits and Systems, High-Performance Reliable Low-Power Architectures and Terahertz Circuits and Architectures. Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 301 Ball Hall University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, MA 01854 ph: (1) 978-934-2986 fax: (1) 978-934-3027 Additional Links on Martin and Wim’s project: Scientists squeeze more than 1,000 cores on to computer chip New chip to make computers ‘faster and greener’ Glasgow Scientists Build 1000-Core PC Processing Chip Academics develop super-fast 1,000 core FPGA chip ———————————————– Questions we asked: 0. What were you hoping to accomplish/discover with this project? 1. How were the 1000 cores assembled?  What technology was used?  2. How simple/complex are the cores?  3. How is this chip programmed?  4. What did you learn?  5. What’s next?  ———————————–  Did you know that there are other cool shows on ISN-TV – you should check them out – the ISN Academic Community Manager Paul Steinberg co-hosts Teach Parallel with Dr. Tom Wolfe from Contra Costa College – tune in next  week on Wednesday morning as Paul and Tom interview the Academic Community’s newest ISN black belt – professor Dick Brown. “Visualize This!” host Arti Gupta will speak with Intel AE Phil Taylor on the game samples being produced by his team. These are SNB samples that were released this year like Shadow Explorer and AVX Cloth.  Phil will also speak to what is upcoming this year.  This show will be available with Arti’s blog post on April 5 th .  FYI – PPT’s new show schedule is every other Tuesday with a show at 9am and another at 10am Join us next time –  Tuesday, April 12 at 9 and 10am Pacific – details for the shows will be on the community calendar. Be sure to drop us a line at – Clay – what’s that address? parallelprogrammingtalk@intel.com  And remember: “If you find yourself hanging by a thread, add some synchronization”