SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2006 – Intel Corporation today
announced new software development tools and resources through its
Intel Software Network. These tools and resources will help Apple
developers take advantage of Intel Core Duo processor technologies to
maximize application performance on the new Intel–based Mac platforms.
The special beta versions of the Intel Fortran Compiler, Intel C++
Compiler, Intel Math Kernel Library and Intel Integrated Performance
Primitives are available now. Intel will also provide other resources
to assist with software optimization, dual core threading and migration
information. More information on these programs is available at www.intel.com/software/apple.
“Intel is pleased to offer Apple developers a free trial of our
products through a special beta program, and we look forward to
developer feedback prior to introducing our products in the coming
months,” said William Savage, general manager of Intel’s Software
Products Division. “Our highly optimized compilers and libraries yield
significant performance advantages for applications and take advantage
of the opportunities made available through multi–core and
multi–threaded environments.”
“High performance scientific and creative customers need to squeeze
every last drop of performance out of their systems,” said Ron Okamoto,
Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We’re
thrilled that Intel has brought their respected suite of tools to help
Apple developers maximize the performance of their applications on
Intel–based Macs.”
These development tools are integrated into Apple’s Xcode
development environment and offer an alternative to existing tools and
compilers. The Intel Fortran compiler enables the scientific and
technical community to bring the fastest versions of their applications
to Mac OS X and Intel–based Mac platforms using industry–standard math
libraries and language. The Intel C++ Compiler provides the ability for
Xcode users to apply targeted optimizations to performance–sensitive
areas of their applications, allowing them to get the most out of the
Intel Core Duo processor.
Intel augments these compilers with advanced support for threading
through OpenMP* and auto–parallelism capabilities. The Intel Math
Kernel Library (Intel MKL) is a set of highly optimized mathematical
routines designed for engineering, science, and financial applications
that require maximum performance on Intel processors. The Intel
Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a software library of
highly optimized functions for multimedia, audio, video, speech,
computer vision, image and signal processing.
Based on Intel’s proven suite of software development products for
other platforms, each product has been transitioned to Mac OS X’s Xcode
development environment to ensure complete fidelity with other Intel
platforms, giving Mac OS X developers a familiar base to use Intel’s
powerful development tools.
The suite of development tools from Intel will be available for
purchase in the second quarter of 2006, and are now available for free
trial in the special beta program.
“We have seen exceptional results during our thorough testing of the
beta versions of the Intel compilers for Mac OS X,” said Jeff Livesay,
Absoft Corporation’s chief operating officer. “Absoft will bundle
market–proven capabilities for Apple developers, including our Fx2
Debugger, with Intel Fortran and C++ compilers and libraries as part of
our efforts, together with Intel, to deliver strong support for
software developers. Scientists can expect great things from these new
platforms.”
Source: Intel Press Release
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