UBM Tech - Game Network

My Shopping Cart

[ 0 ] items in cart

View Cart | Checkout

Game Developer Research

Research Reports

Gamasutra

Contractor Listings

GDC Vault

Individual Subscription

GDC Audio Recordings

App Developers Conference 2013

GDC Next 2013

GDC Europe 2013

	GDC 2013
	GDC Online 2012
	GDC Europe 2012
	GDC 2012
	GDC 2011
	GDC 10
	GDC 09
	GDC Austin 08
	GDC Mobile 08
	GDC 08
	GDC Austin 07
	GDC Mobile 07
	GDC 07
	GDC 06
	GDC 05
	GDC 04
	GDC 03
	GDC 01
	GDC 2000 & Before

Newest Item(s)

Why Now Is the Best Time Ever to Be a Game Developer

Ingress: Design Principles Behind Google's Massively Multiplayer Geo Game

Playing with 'Game'

Gathering Your Party with Project Eternity (GDC Next 10)

D4: Dawn of the Dreaming Director's Drama (GDC Next 10)

Using Plot Devices to Create Gameplay in Storyteller (GDC Next 10)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Making CounterSpy (GDC Next 10)

Luck and Skill in Games

Minimalist Game Design for Mobile Devices

Broken Age: Rethinking a Classic Genre for the Modern Era (GDC Next 10)

Storefront > GDC Vault Store - Audio Recordings > More GDC > GDC 2005

View larger image

QTY:

Effective Use of OpenMP in Games
Price	$5.95
Adjustment
Type
Stock	Unlimited
Status
Weight	0 lb, 0 oz
SKU	GDC-05-075
Statistics

Description

Effective Use of OpenMP in Games,
3918

Programming, Lecture

Pete Isensee
Lead Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Xbox
Harnessing the power of multiple processors is a new challenge for game programmers, and one that’s likely to be more and more important as the number of multi-CPU gaming systems grows. One technology that allows developers to use multiple CPUs without all the hassle of spawning threads and synchronizing data is OpenMP. OpenMP is a portable, industry-standard API for C/C++ that supports parallel programming. Although OpenMP has been primarily targeted at high-end supercomputers in the past, it’s now available in the Intel compiler, gcc, and Visual Studio 2005. This talk gives a brief introduction to OpenMP, and then dives into ways that games can really take advantage of this technology to improve performance. We cover common errors, portability issues, and debugging.

In order to get the performance they crave, more and more gamers are buying gaming machines with hyperthreading or multiple CPUs. Future game consoles are likely to have multiple processors as well – harnessing the full power of this silicon is a new challenge for game programmers. OpenMP is a flexible, portable technique for programmers to have in their tool chest. OpenMP allows developers to really take advantage of the gaming systems of the future.

Please leave this field blank.