IGZIP: A high-performance Deflate Compressor, with Optimizations for Genomic...
IGZIP is a fast compression library supporting the DEFLATE and GZIP formats. It is much faster than the standard “gzip -1”, although its compression ratio is slightly worse. It can be built in two...
View ArticleOne Touch Composer: Creating a Digital Sheet Music App with Touch, Stylus,...
By Dominic MilanoDownload PDFIntroductionWhen Dmitriy Golonanov, the CEO of the international company, Maestro Music Software, learned that many musicians would rather use a lightweight tablet than...
View ArticleEnter the Wormhole
Download as PDFInsights from Developing Wormhole Pinball for the All-in-One on Windows*By Geoff ArnoldMulti-touch All-in-One (AIO) platforms extend the bounds of what’s possible for those writing touch...
View ArticleKAGURA: Blending Gesture and Music into a Bold New UI
Download as PDFBy William Van WinkleThanks to a host of mainstream innovations, the world is increasingly interested in perceptual computing. Intel is throwing open the gates and directing traffic into...
View ArticlePaint Your Music: A Table-Top, Multi-Touch-Enabled Virtual Musical...
By: Dominic MilanoDownload PDF Innovations in computing form factors such as All-in-One (AIO) and tablet devices that combine desktop-like performance with multi-touch-enabled, high-resolution...
View ArticleOverview of Ultrabook™ 2 in 1 with Recommendations for Mode-Aware App...
Download as PDFIntroductionUltrabook™ 2 in 1s are PCs that can transition from laptop mode (for productivity needs) to tablet mode (for consumption needs). In this article, you can explore the hardware...
View ArticleControlling floating-point modes when using Intel® Threading Building Blocks
Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) 4.2 Update 4 introduced enhanced support for managing floating-pointing settings. Floating-point settings can now be specified at the invocation of most...
View ArticleUsing Unity* 3D Standard GUI with TouchScript Assets
By Lynn ThompsonDownload PDFThe standard Unity* 3D graphical user interface (GUI) widgets respond to touch as if you had clicked them with a mouse using Windows* 8 Pen and Touch functionality, and you...
View ArticleApplying Vectorization Techniques for B-Spline Surface Evaluation
AbstractIn this paper we analyze relevance of vectorization for evaluation of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) surfaces broadly used in Computer Aided Design (CAD) industry to describe free-form...
View ArticleMerrifield Uncore Performance Monitoring Events
Using the Merrifield SoC Performance Monitoring EventsThis article focuses directly on the uncore performance monitoring events for the SoC Merrifield. For the introduction to SoC uncore performance...
View ArticleIntel® GPA Platform Analyzer: how can I benefit from the new features?
Starting from version 2013 R4, Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel GPA) introduce a new version of the Intel GPA Platform Analyzer. If you used the previous version of Intel® GPA Platform...
View ArticleHigh Performance DEFLATE Compression with Optimizations for Genomic Data Sets
Abstractigzip is a high-performance library for performing gzip or DEFLATE compression. It was initially described in “High Performance DEFLATE Compression on Intel Architecture Processors”. This paper...
View ArticleGame Optimization for Ultrabook™ Devices
Download as PDFBy Lee Bamber1. IntroductionRecently, I had the task of preparing a game engine I’ve been working on for the Games Developer Conference. Given the importance of the event, I needed my...
View ArticleAudacity* Gets a Touch UI for Tablets and 2 in 1 PCs
Download as PDFIntroductionThis article previews some in-development features of Audacity, which is a free, simple, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows*, Mac* OS X*, GNU/Linux*, and other...
View ArticleDeveloper Great British Chefs Releases Their Namesake Application for Intel®...
Scrumptious recipes from the top British chefs are immediately accessible to mobile device users.The multimedia content producers at Great British Chefs have made their vibrant, information-rich...
View ArticleOptimizing Cyberlink PowerDVD 10* Improves Battery Life
Download PDFAuthors: Manuj Sabharwal and Gael Hofemeier, Software Engineers, Software Solutions Group, Intel CorporationIntroductionLow battery life is one of the most serious issues currently plaguing...
View ArticleImplementing Gesture Sequences in Unity* 3D with TouchScript
Download PDFBy Lynn ThompsonWhen configuring touch targets to control other elements of a scene, it’s important to minimize the screen space that the controlling elements occupy. In this way, you can...
View ArticleLegend of Xuan Yuan Case Study: Get the best gameplay with 2 in 1 state,...
Download PDFAbstractTencent wanted to give gamers the best experience on Intel® Ultrabook™ and 2 in 1 systems. Legend of Xuan Yuan was already a successful game, but these systems provided Tencent with...
View ArticleOpenCL™ JumpStart Tutorial
Download PDF1. IntroductionOpenCL™ JumpStart Kit is a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio* that enables developers to quickly create OpenCL projects in the Visual Studio IDE. JumpStart is a new feature...
View ArticleOpenCL™ API Debugger Tutorial
Download PDF1. IntroductionOpenCL™ API Debugger is a Microsoft Visual Studio* plug-in that enables debugging of OpenCL applications by allowing developers to monitor and understand their OpenCL...
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