Intel Ct is a

programming model A programming model is an execution model coupled to an API or a particular pattern of code. In this style, there are actually two execution models in play: the execution model of the base programming language and the execution model of the progr ...

developed by

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

to ease the exploitation of its future

multicore A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores, each of which reads and executes program instructions. The instructions are ordinary CPU instructions (such a ...

chips, as demonstrated by the Tera-Scale research program. It is based on the exploitation of

SIMD Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy. SIMD can be internal (part of the hardware design) and it can be directly accessible through an instruction set architecture (ISA), but it should ...

to produce automatically parallelized programs. On August 19, 2009,

acquired

RapidMind RapidMind Inc. was a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, acquired by Intel in 2009. It provided a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to target multi-core processors and ...

, a privately held company founded and headquartered in

Waterloo, Ontario Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo (formerly Waterloo County, Ontario, Waterloo County). Waterloo is situated about west-southwest of Toronto. Due to the c ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. RapidMind and Ct combined into a successor named

Intel Array Building Blocks Intel Array Building Blocks (also known as ArBB) was a C++ library developed by Intel Corporation for exploiting data parallel portions of programs to take advantage of multi-core processors, graphics processing units and Intel Many Integrated Co ...

(ArBB)"Parallel Studio 2011: Now We Know What Happened to Ct, Cilk++, and RapidMind"
Dr. Dobb's Journal (2010-09-02). Retrieved on 2010-09-14. released in September 2010.

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(archived copy; see also https://web.archive.org/web/20090817022457/http://software.intel.com/en-us/data-parallel/) SIMD computing Ct {{compu-prog-stub