NI宣布其已經加入多核協會，此協會是全球非盈利性組織，致力于開發(fā)幫助縮短多核執(zhí)行產品投入市場時間的標準。作為此協會的一員，NI將與包括英特爾、飛思卡爾半導體和風河系統公司在內的具有領先技術的公司合作，改進操作系統、硬件和軟件開發(fā)工具間的協同工作能力，以方便工程師和科學家們能受益于由多核技術帶來的高端性能。 多核協會總裁Markus Levy說：“NI具備軟硬件操作系統倍受關注的多種多核技術知識，其在產品開發(fā)方面的領導水平和經驗都是利用此技術的優(yōu)勢，使得NI成為多核協會努力確定多核技術應用標準的非常有價值的貢獻者。” NI為協會提供了其30多年的技術領導水平以及重要經驗，來支持和應用多核技術。如NI的LabVIEW圖形開發(fā)軟件產品。因其在多線程技術方面有10年的投資，LabVIEW以它直覺的并行數據流語言簡化了多核和基于FPGA的應用開發(fā)。LabVIEW還能利用LabVIEW實時環(huán)境傳送對稱多處理，使得用戶從多核處理器直接獲得性能成為可能。用戶可利用LabVIEW圖形化設計及多核技術的優(yōu)勢，包括NASA、Ames風洞控制研究中心、Max Planck核聚變研究學院、Eaton傳播測試公司、弗吉尼亞理工大學所研發(fā)的技術和用于開發(fā)智能工具的Torc技術。 NI的總裁CEO兼協同創(chuàng)始人James Truchard說：“多核設計的改變就像二十年前導向目標設計的變遷具有革命性，LabVIEW是應對此新挑戰(zhàn)的理想選擇。NI已經在LabVIEW領域投入了十年，同時其并行數據流路徑對于建立多核應用的工程師和科學家們也是理想的選擇。我們盼望著與多核協會一起協作為界定多核應用標準做出貢獻?！? 讀者可登錄：www.ni.com/multicore 查找關于多核設計資源，包括由NI、英特爾、多核協會、QNX軟件系統和加州大學共同發(fā)布的白皮書和webcasts。 [font=times]original text [/font] [font=times]National Instruments Joins The Multicore Association to Improve Interoperability of Multicore-Enabled Software and Hardware [/font] [font=times][color=#708090]National Instruments today announced it has joined The Multicore Association, a global nonprofit organization focused on developing standards that help shorten time to market for products that involve multicore implementations. As a member of the association, National Instruments is collaborating with leading technology companies including Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River to improve the interoperability among operating systems, hardware and software development tools so engineers and scientists can benefit from the performance improvements offered by multicore technology. “National Instruments has a commanding and diverse knowledge of multicore technology from a software, hardware and operating system perspective,” said Markus Levy, president of The Multicore Association. “Their experience and leadership in developing products that can take advantage of this technology makes National Instruments a valuable contributor to The Multicore Association’s efforts to define the standards for multicore applications.” National Instruments offers more than 30 years of technology leadership to the association as well as significant experience supporting and using multicore technology through products such as NI LabVIEW graphical development software. With more than 10 years of investment in multithreading technology, LabVIEW simplifies multicore and FPGA-based application development with its intuitive parallel dataflow language. LabVIEW also delivers symmetric multiprocessing （SMP） with the LabVIEW Real-Time environment, making it possible for users to gain performance from multicore processors without sacrificing determinism. Customers using LabVIEW graphical programming to take advantage of multicore technology include the NASA Ames Research Center for wind tunnel control, Max Planck Institute for nuclear fusion research, Eaton Corporation for transmission testing and Virginia Tech University and Torc Technologies for developing autonomous vehicle vision intelligence. Additionally, National Instruments incorporates multicore processors into several of its hardware offerings including controllers available on the PXI and PXI Express platforms. “The change to multicore programming is as revolutionary as the transition to object-oriented programming was two decades ago, and LabVIEW is ideally suited for this new challenge,” said Dr. James Truchard, National Instruments president, CEO and cofounder. “National Instruments already has invested 10 years in the multithreading technology in LabVIEW, and its parallel, dataflow approach is ideal for engineers and scientists building multicore applications. We look forward to working with The Multicore Association to define the standards for multicore applications.” Readers can visit www.ni.com/multicore for multicore programming resources including webcasts and white papers presented by National Instruments, Intel, The Multicore Association, QNX Software Systems and the University of California, Berkeley. [/color][/font]