OPEN CASCADE is an Information Technology company, providing services in the domain of scientific and technical computing, particularly in the integration of simulation tools. For its customers, OPEN CASCADE develops specific solutions integrating its know-how with its own Open Source tools, or with any types of information tools.
Freedom of Choice
There is a wide range of existing solutions available today to help to simplify this investment. Still, some developers choose to design and develop their own tools to support multi-threading. When choosing a solution, it is important to evaluate carefully all aspects of every given method cost of implementation and maintenance, availability, scalability, robustness, etc.
March 2011
This solution has proven to be not only effective, but also extremely easy to implement the code changes necessary to use Intel TBB are localized in a couple of classes and leave the code looking natural and elegant. Open CASCADE Technology version 6.4 released in October 2010 made these enhancements available for the first time. Since March 2011 when Open CASCADE Technology public version 6.5 was released this solution is available to the whole Open Source community as well.
March 2011