Measuring Parallelism: How Much Power Are You Wasting?

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Management professionals love metrics. However, they don't like the idea to optimize applications that are currently running. Thus, what about showing them some metrics about the power that they are wasting using a free tool?

Using Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading and multicore metrics

This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded C# application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.

For more information about Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1, visit: http://software.intel.com/

The application also uses AForge.NET imaging framework. For more information about AForge.NET, visit: http://www.aforgenet.com

For more information about .Net Parallel Extensions, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx