The Intel Software Network (ISN) is an international online program designed by Intel to encourage and support independent software vendor

Independent software vendor

Independent software vendor is a business term for companies specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets...

s in developing applications for Intel hardware and software products. This support is provided for the key stages of the business life cycle from planning to development and in various forms: web sites, newsletter

Newsletter

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in...

s, developer conferences, trade media, and blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

s. Although a subscription to the Intel Software Partner Program includes a membership in ISN, one can join ISN alone.

Products supported through ISN include support for multiprocessor

Multiprocessing

Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor and/or the ability to allocate tasks between them...

 offerings like Threading Building Blocks and Intel Parallel Studio

Intel Parallel Studio

Intel Parallel Studio is a software development product developed by Intel that plugs into the Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment. Its purpose is to facilitate developing programs for parallel computing...

, as well as programing tools like Intel's compiler products (Intel C++

Intel C++ Compiler

Intel C++ Compiler is a group of C and C++ compilers from Intel Corporation available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows....

 and Intel Fortran

Intel Fortran Compiler

Intel Fortran Compiler, also known as IFORT, is a Fortran compiler developed by Intel. It generates code for IA-32, Intel 64 processors. Compilers are available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. On Windows, it is known as Intel Visual Fortran...

) and Intel's VTune

VTune

Intel VTune Amplifier XE is a commercial application for software performance analysis for 32 and 64-bit x86 based machines, and has both GUI and command line interfaces. It is available for both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems...

 analyzer, and libraries

Library (computer science)

In computer science, a library is a collection of resources used to develop software. These may include pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications....

 like Integrated Performance Primitives

Integrated Performance Primitives

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives is a multi-threaded software library of functions for multimedia and data processing applications, produced by Intel....

 and MKL

Math Kernel Library

Intel's Math Kernel Library is a library of optimized, math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms and Vector Math....

.

Websites

ISN's primary web presence at software.intel.com is a collection of sites for the developer community that are authored both by Intel and by the community at large. These sites include forums, documentation and knowledge papers, confidential online support and download areas. Access is available both on a no-charge level as well as a more extensive, subscription level.

External links

• Intel Software Network communities