Intel Threading Building Blocks 2.1

Major Features:

1. TBB significantly reduces the number of lines of code required to develop multithreaded applications;
2. TBB significantly reduces the programming complexity for developing multithreaded applications (by abstracting many details of thread management);
3. TBB's task manager automatically analyzes the system the software is running on, chooses the optimal number of threads, and performs load balancing that spreads out the work evenly across all processor cores;
4. As a result, TBB threaded applications automatically scale to fully utilize all available processing cores on whatever computer they run on -- including future systems that will have many more cores than are available (or affordable) today.

Requirements:

• Hardware - Recommended: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor or higher
• Hardware - Supported:
• • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor family and higher
  • Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor family (Linux* systems only)
  • Non Intel(R) processors compatible with the above processors
• Software - Minimum Requirements:
• • Supported operating system: Mac OS* X 10.5.6 or higher
  • Supported compiler
  • • Microsoft* Visual C++* 7.1 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* .NET 2003, Windows* systems only, deprecated)
    • Microsoft* Visual C++ 8.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2005, Windows* systems only)
    • Microsoft* Visual C++ 9.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2008, Windows* systems only)
    • Intel(R) C++ Compiler 10.0 or higher
    • For each supported Linux* operating system, the standard gcc
    • Version provided with that operating system is supported,
    • including gcc 3.2 through 4.4
    • For each supported Mac OS* X operating system, the standard gcc
    • Version provided with that operating system is supported,
    • Including: 4.0.1 (Xcode* tool suite 3.1.2 or higher)
  • Xcode* tool suite 2.4.1 or higher (Mac OS* X systems only)
  • Microsoft* Internet Explorer* 6.0, or other compatible web browser
  • Adobe(R) Reader(R)* 6.0 or higher
• Software - Recommended
• • Intel(R) Parallel Studio
  • Intel(R) C++ Compiler 10.0 or higher
  • Intel(R) Thread Checker 3.1 or higher
  • Intel(R) Thread Profiler 3.1 or higher