Chapter 2
An Overview of Parallel Studio XE
What's in This Chapter?
An overview of Parallel Studio XE
An overview of Advisor XE
An overview of Composer XE
An overview of Amplifier XE
An overview of Inspector XE
This chapter gives an overview of Intel Parallel Studio XE, highlighting the main features of each tool.
Parallel Studio XE enables you to develop, debug, optimize, and tune both threaded and non-threaded applications on Linux and Windows. On Windows, Parallel Studio XE plugs into Visual Studio; on Linux, it works alongside the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
Developers use Parallel Studio XE in a number of different ways. The chapter concludes with a discussion on three different ways that you might want to use Parallel Studio XE.
Why Parallel Studio XE?
In Chapter 1, “Parallelism Today,” high on the list of the top six challenges was tools. Programmers need tools that work well together and help productivity. Intel Parallel Studio XE is a comprehensive tool suite that is designed to help you develop parallel applications.
Programmers and developers like to follow their own way of doing things. Not everyone follows the same methodology — some like top-down, others like bottom-up, and others mix and match methodologies. Some developers prefer to use tools with a graphical user interface, whereas others find using the command line much more productive. Some experienced programmers dive straight into adding parallelism to their code with a minimum of guidance, whereas others ...
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