Intel Array Building Blocks

Intel Array Building Blocks

Developer(s)	Intel
Initial release	May 17, 2010
Preview release	1.0 beta 6 / August 25, 2011
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows, Linux
Type	library or framework
Website	[1]

Intel Array Building Blocks (also known as ArBB) is 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

2007 [Intel Ct] is a programming model developed by Intel to ease the exploitation of its future multi-core processors as part of the Tera-Scale research program.

2009 In April, Intel announces that "Ct to appear in programmer tools by end of the year"

2009 On August 19, 2009, Intel acquired RapidMind, a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

2010 In September, Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB) is introduced by Intel as the result of the merger of Intel Ct and RapidMind technologies. The first version of ArBB supports Windows and Linux, and supports all standard C++ compilers including Intel, Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC C++ compilers.

See also

• Intel Cilk Plus
• Intel Concurrent Collections
• Intel Parallel Building Blocks
• Intel Parallel Studio
• Intel Software Network (support and discussion)
• Intel Threading Building Blocks
• Parallel computing

External Links

• The Official Array Building Blocks Website at Intel