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NI LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition Extends Multicore Processing and Hybrid Programming to Academia

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    Graphical System Design Software Offers Students Hands-On Learning for Real-World Applications

    NEWS RELEASE - Nov. 6, 2007 - National Instruments today announced the availability of the LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition, the latest version of the graphical system design software that gives students a flexible, hands-on environment to design, prototype and deploy engineering and science concepts into real-world applications. The student edition offers all the features of the popular LabVIEW graphical development platform including multicore processing and hybrid programming, providing students with software that facilitates project-based learning, leverages the latest industry performance standards and gives more programming options for creating applications and engineering algorithms.

    Multicore processing, the development of parallel applications running concurrently on two or more processor cores, is gaining popularity in industry because of the exponential performance improvements it provides. The LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition teaches students to easily optimize and engineer algorithms for multiple cores as well as deploy threads for control, test and embedded system development.

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