What were Intel's primary goals for Parallel Studio?

We wanted an end-to-end product suite for parallelism that offered an easy on-ramp for C/C++ developers to using parallelism. We wanted to focus on having portable standards-based threading solutions that support multiple ways to exploit parallelism, including data and task parallel programming.

One of our main goals was to steer developers away from dead-ends with concurrency. We have carefully considered how to strongly support forward scaling to many-core. We're coordinating with Microsoft's plans to help applications and tool interoperate, so that Visual Studio is extended in great directions that offer a rich set of options and support for parallel programming.

We wanted an end-to-end product suite for parallelism that offered an easy on-ramp for C/C++ developers to using parallelism. We wanted to focus on having portable standards-based threading solutions that support multiple ways to exploit parallelism, including data and task parallel programming.

One of our main goals was to steer developers away from dead-ends with concurrency. We have carefully considered how to strongly support forward scaling to many-core. We're coordinating with Microsoft's plans to help applications and tool interoperate, so that Visual Studio is extended in great directions that offer a rich set of options and support for parallel programming.