<s>
Intel	B-Application
Array	I-Application
Building	I-Application
Blocks	I-Application
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
ArBB	B-Application
)	O
was	O
a	O
C++	B-Language
library	B-Library
developed	O
by	O
Intel	O
Corporation	O
for	O
exploiting	O
data	O
parallel	O
portions	O
of	O
programs	O
to	O
take	O
advantage	O
of	O
multi-core	B-Architecture
processors	I-Architecture
,	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
units	I-Architecture
and	O
Intel	B-General_Concept
Many	I-General_Concept
Integrated	I-General_Concept
Core	I-General_Concept
Architecture	I-General_Concept
processors	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
ArBB	B-Application
provides	O
a	O
generalized	O
vector	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
programming	I-Operating_System
solution	O
designed	O
to	O
avoid	O
direct	O
dependencies	O
on	O
particular	O
low-level	O
parallelism	B-Operating_System
mechanisms	O
or	O
hardware	O
architectures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ArBB	B-Application
is	O
oriented	O
to	O
applications	O
that	O
require	O
data-intensive	O
mathematical	O
computations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
default	O
,	O
ArBB	B-Application
programs	O
cannot	O
create	O
data	O
races	O
or	O
deadlocks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intel	B-General_Concept
Ct	I-General_Concept
was	O
a	O
parallel	B-Application
programming	I-Application
model	I-Application
developed	O
by	O
Intel	O
in	O
2007	O
for	O
its	O
future	O
multi-core	B-Architecture
processors	I-Architecture
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Tera-Scale	B-General_Concept
research	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2010	O
,	O
Intel	B-Application
Array	I-Application
Building	I-Application
Blocks	I-Application
(	O
ArBB	B-Application
)	O
were	O
introduced	O
as	O
the	O
result	O
of	O
the	O
merger	O
of	O
Intel	B-General_Concept
Ct	I-General_Concept
and	O
RapidMind	O
technologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
ArBB	B-Application
supported	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
and	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Intel	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
Visual	O
C++	B-Language
and	O
GCC	O
C++	B-Language
compilers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2012	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
discontinued	O
in	O
favour	O
of	O
other	O
Intel	O
projects	O
:	O
Cilk	B-Language
Plus	O
and	O
Threading	B-Application
Building	I-Application
Blocks	I-Application
.	O
</s>
