美国国家仪器公司将举办多核编程研讨会

National Instruments Offers Multi-core Programming Workshops

美国国家仪器将举办多核编程研讨会

April 7, 2008 -- National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) announced an initiative sponsored by Intel Corporation to deliver free, hands-on multi-core programming workshops based on the NI LabVIEW graphical programming language to engineers and scientists around the globe. The Multi-core Programming with NI LabVIEW Hands-On Workshop will be presented in 18 U.S. and Canadian cities beginning in May and 15 international cities this fall. The half-day workshop features perspectives from Intel on the industry transition from single-core to multi-core systems, examines the current capabilities of multi-core architectures including the latest Intel Core microarchitecture and provides insight into the multi-core technology roadmap from Intel. The workshop also demonstrates how engineers and scientists can achieve real performance improvements by using LabVIEW graphical programming for multi-core system development.

4月7日消息——美国国家仪器公司公布了一项由英特尔公司赞助的计划，为全球各地的工程师和科学家们举办基于NI LabVIEW图形化编程语言的免费实用研讨会。该NI LabVIEW多核编程实用研讨会将从5月在18个美国和加拿大城市开始，从今年秋天在15个国际城市开始。这项为期半天的研讨会将有英特尔对从单核向多核系统产业转型的展望，研究包括英特尔Core微架构等多核架构的现有能力，并提供英特尔对多核技术路线的认识。研讨会还展示工程师和科学家们如何利用LabVIEW图形化编程为多核系统的开发实现真正的性能改进。

"LabVIEW simplifies multi-core programming by helping users automatically map their graphical programs onto different threads to be executed on multiple cores," said Dr. James Truchard, National Instruments president, CEO and co-founder. "The LabVIEW execution system now dynamically scales the number of threads used based on the number of processing cores available on the system, and, for advanced requirements, users can directly assign sections of code to specific cores in desktop, Windows-based systems and embedded real-time systems. Attendees of our new workshop will get hands-on experience using these and other tools and techniques to discover just how easy programming multi-core systems with LabVIEW can be."

国家仪器公司主席、首席执行官兼共同创始人ames Truchard博士表示：“LabVIEW通过帮助用户自动制订将在多核架构里面执行的不同线程的图形程序，简化多核编程。这个LabVIEW执行系统现在动态地根据系统可用的处理内核数量，增加或者减少线程数量，而且，对于高级要求，用户还可以在基于Windows系统和嵌入式实时系统的台式机上直接指派代码段到特定的内核。参与我们新研讨会的与会人士将获得亲身体验，利用这些以及其他一些工具和技术来发现，通过LabVIEW可以如何轻易地编程多核心系统。”

Building on more than 10 years of investment in multithreading technology, LabVIEW simplifies multi-core-based application development. The intuitive dataflow language of LabVIEW makes it easy for users to design parallel solutions and map their applications to multi-core architectures for increased performance. LabVIEW also delivers symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with the LabVIEW Real-Time environment to help users realize performance gains from multi-core processors without sacrificing determinism. Customers using LabVIEW to successfully scale performance from multi-core architectures include the NASA Ames Research Center for wind tunnel control, Max Planck Institute for nuclear fusion research, and Virginia Tech and TORC Technologies for developing autonomous vehicle vision intelligence.

LabVIEW建立在投入了10多年的多线程技术基础上，简化了多核心为基础的应用开发。LabVIEW直观的数据流语言使用户能够很方便地设计并行解决方案，制订他们的多核心架构应用以提升性能。LabVIEW 还在LabVIEW实时环境中提供了对称多处理(SMP)技术，帮助用户从多核处理器获得性能，而无需牺牲决定论。利用LabVIEW成功地从多核架构获得性能提升的客户包括美国航天局Ames研究中心的风洞控制，Max Planck究所的核聚变研究，以及弗吉尼亚理工大学和TORC Technologies对自主汽车视觉智能的开发。

"Intel has offered multi-core processor solutions to the embedded and communications markets for more than two years, and our customers are embracing the architecture of our multi-core processors," said Jim St. Leger, technology marketing manager for Intel's Embedded and Communications Group. "LabVIEW delivers a built-in concurrency approach that simplifies multi-core programming while its graphical programming model makes it possible for developers to incorporate their legacy ANSI C/C++ code into LabVIEW and get the optimal performance out of their hardware."

英特尔嵌入式和通信集团技术营销经理Jim St. Leger表示：“英特尔已经为嵌入式系统以及通信市场提供了两年多的多核心处理器解决方案，而我们的客户都采用了我们的多核处理器架构。LabVIEW提供了一个内置并发运行方法，简化了多核编程，同时其图形化编程模型使开发人员可以把他们原来的ANSI C/C++代码合并到 LabVIEW，从他们的硬件中获得最佳性能。”

The Multi-core Programming with NI LabVIEW Hands-On Workshop features an overview of multi-core technology and its benefits followed by hands-on sessions covering LabVIEW graphical programming basics, multithreaded programming, partitioning an application, debugging and migrating legacy applications. Attendees will develop multi-core applications during the training using dual-core laptops equipped with LabVIEW and the NI CompactDAQ USB-based modular data acquisition system.

该NI LabVIEW多核编程实用研讨会在涵盖LabVIEW图形化编程基础、多线程编程、分区及应用、调试及替换传统应用等实用议题之后，将概述多核心技术及其好处。与会者将在会议期间，使用装有LabVIEW以及NI CompactDAQ USB接口的模块化数据采集系统的双核笔记本电脑，开发多核应用。

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National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,600 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past nine years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

美国国家仪器公司正在改变工程师和科学家们在测量、自动化和嵌入式应用领域进行设计、建模和配置系统的方式。NI为客户现货供应NI LabVIEW等软件以及模块化的高性价比硬件，而且客户遍布全球超过2万5千家不同的公司，没有一个客户的销售额超过总收入的3％，也没有任何一个行业的销售额超过销售总额的10％ 。NI总部设于美国德克萨斯州的奥斯汀，在将近40个国家中设有分支机构，共拥有4600多名员工。在过去连续九年里，《财富》杂志评选NI为全美最适合工作的100家公司之一。