Intel Array Building Blocks (also known as ArBB) was a C++

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for exploiting data parallel portions of programs to take advantage of multi-core processors, graphics processing units and Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture processors. ArBB provides a generalized vector parallel programming solution designed to avoid direct dependencies on particular low-level parallelism mechanisms or hardware architectures. ArBB is oriented to applications that require data-intensive mathematical computations. By default, ArBB programs cannot create data races or deadlocks.

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in 2007 for its future multi-core processors as part of the Tera-Scale research program. In April 2009, Intel announced that "Ct sto appear in programmer tools by end of the year". On August 19, 2009, Intel acquired RapidMind, a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario,

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. In September 2010, Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB) were introduced as the result of the merger of Intel Ct and RapidMind technologies. The first version of ArBB supported

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, and Intel, Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC C++ compilers. In October 2012 the project was discontinued in favour of other Intel projects: Cilk Plus and Threading Building Blocks."Intel® Array Building Blocks"
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