threading building blocks

After a year of being open source, Intel is now releasing Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 2.1, which expands the functionality and performance of the project.

Intel released a new version of its Linux-compatible, open source library for multi-core C++ development. Version 2.1 of Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers performance improvements, adds a portable affinity mechanism, and improves the task scheduler to ease development for GUIs, network I/O, and artificial intelligence, says Intel.

As part of their ongoing alliance, Intel and Sun Microsystems have ported Intel's Linux-compatible multi-core C++ development library to the Linux- and Solaris-compatible Sun Studio.

The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) technology has also been made available for the latest version of the Solaris operating system (OS).

Multi-core chips from Intel and AMD offer a dramatic boost in speed and responsiveness, and plenty of opportunities for multiprocessing on ordinary desktop computers.