The Parallel Universe Magazine

Intel’s quarterly magazine helps you take your software development into the future with the latest tools, tips, and training to expand your expertise.
 

Issue 48, April 2022

Feature: Winning the NeurIPS Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge

Download the current issue to find:

  • The feature article presenting the winning solution to a recent data science competition: the NeurIPS Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge.
  • Two articles describing how to optimize various parts of the analytics pipeline, up to and including artificial intelligence.
  • Multiple articles focusing on SYCL and oneAPI, including one covering five outstanding additions to SYCL 2020.
Contents
Winning the NeurIPS Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge

Unleashing Intel® Xeon® Processors with Intel® Optane™ Technology to Drastically Improve Search Performance

 

See how the winning solution took advantage of Intel® hardware computational capabilities to deliver a breakthrough improvement in total cost of ownership and performance.

Optimize Artificial Intelligence Applications

Better AI Performance with Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimized Software

 

See the performance possibilities for analytics software from Intel in the PLAsTiCC Classification Challenge from Kaggle*.

Accelerating the 2D Fourier Correlation Algorithm with ArrayFire and oneAPI

A Side-by-Side Look at the ArrayFire and oneAPI Abstractions for Heterogeneous Parallelism

 

The authors compare two approaches to write once, run anywhere heterogeneous parallelism.

More Productive and Performant C++ Programming with oneDPL

In a Heterogeneous Computing Landscape, Open Standards and Portability Are Your Allies

 

Get an introduction to the Intel® oneAPI Data Parallel Library (oneDPL), including a sneak peek at new features under development.

Optimize End-to-End Artificial Intelligence Pipelines

Strategies for AI Pipelines on Intel Xeon Processors

 

Explore the effects of different optimization strategies on modern AI pipelines for machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, model training, and data ingestion.

Five Outstanding Additions Found in SYCL* 2020

The SYCL Programming Language Is Evolving

 

Strong community input is helping SYCL achieve the goal of delivering multivendor and multiarchitecture solutions.

The MAXLOC Reduction in oneAPI

Implementing This Common Parallel Pattern in SYCL and oneDPL

 

Look at different ways to implement the MAXLOC reduction on accelerators in oneAPI.