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A good number of the pieces of the suite have been available as experimental tools on WhatIf.intel.com. The Performance Tuning Utility is the most popular, for example—it has had a pretty good number of downloads for tuning tool. Now it will graduate to be a big part of the Parallel Amplifier product. The parallelism exploration compiler that we've offered on What If for a while is going into Parallel Composer.

Other tools draw on popular libraries and tools we've used with technical and enterprise developers for years. Parallel Composer also includes Threading Building Blocks and Integrated Performance Primitives. Parallel Inspector is based in part on Intel Thread Checker technology. This is going to set a "must use" standard for shipping stable and reliable threaded applications, for all developers. We've been sharing these tools and have gotten strong feedback, so these are definitely not all new—there's a long history here for the core of these products. That means we've had time to incorporate feedback and experience into these tools.

What brings it all together is customer feedback on the real problems they face—and how to bring it all together into a complete solution. Internally, we kicked this off as "solution sets." I like the emphasis on solving customer issues. We're fortunate to have a great team with enormous experience with parallelism who are committed to solving customer problems. Software developers are going to like what they can accomplish with Intel Parallel Studio.