HIGHLIGHTS This guide shows the evolution of parallel programming in C# and explains how to use the new Async paradigm, introduced in C# version 5.0 to develop multi-threaded applications ...

In parallel processing, a software program is written or modified to identify what parts of the computation can be executed on separate processing hardware, Schardl says. Those parts of the ...

For those of you who are dyslexic, Cilk is not to be confused with SYCL, which is a cross-platform, parallel abstraction layer for C++ that rides on OpenCL; it was created in 2014 and that is ...

Concurrency and parallelism are names for two different mechanisms for juggling tasks in a program. Concurrency involves allowing multiple jobs to take turns accessing the same shared resources ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...

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Wheat from Chaff: Most existing parallel programming environments don’t separate the specific details of machine/architecture-specific parallelism from the actual parallel algorithm development. We ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day ...

The rapid growth in popularity of Python as a programming language for mathematics, science, and engineering applications has been amazing. Not only is it easy to learn, but there is a vast treasure ...