Understand the new direction in development of static code analyzers - verification of parallel programs. The article reviews several static analyzers which can claim to be called "Parallel Lint".

The article describes the main steps which should be performed to correctly port 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows systems. Although the article is meant for developers using C/C++ in Visual Studio 2005/2008 environment, it will be also useful for other developers who plan to port their applications on 64-bit systems.

Discover the AMD64 architecture and its implementation EM64T by Intel.

Discover some ways to increase the performance of 64-bit Windows applications.

Pursue a description of a number of parallel code errors that lead to incorrect behavior of parallel programs created with OpenMP.