While I definitely shared my enthusiasm for parallel programming, I had two key goals for those who attended: 1. Advocate for “Think Parallel”: Explain why parallelism should be taught from ...

I just finished reading the new book by David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu called Programming Massively Parallel Processors. The generic title notwithstanding, readers should not come to this book expecting ...

Whether modifying an existing application or writing entirely new code, parallel applications can be much more challenging to work with than their Aspencore network News & Analytics ...

Parallel Studio XE 2016 includes updated versions ... in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK.

The future of computing is very exciting and the shift to abundant hardware parallelism may seem a little frightening in terms of programming challenges. The best way to be ready is to learn to think ...

CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on its own GPUs (graphics processing units).CUDA enables developers to speed up compute ...

OpenCL, created to support parallel programming in Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, may become the new world standard for parallel programming on all platforms. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a ...

Just because supercomputers are engineered to be far more powerful over time does not necessarily mean programmer productivity will follow the same curve. Added performance means more complexity, ...

[Pulko Mandy] doesn’t use his flash ROM programmer very often ... This device connects to the parallel port and was intended for use with MS-DOS systems (no wonder there’s no longer support ...

[Matt Evans] was running up against the common programming gotcha caused by disappearing parallel ports. For years he had used a JTAG parallel cable when working with FPGAs but recently realized ...