What Is Parallel Programming? Before talking about parallel programming, let me explain two concepts closely related to it: synchronous and asynchronous execution modes. These modes are important ...

Intel's James Reinders presents some recurring themes for developers looking to improve their game when it comes to programming parallel systems ...

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 ...

The main challenge consists in deciding how to partition your problem into chunks suitable for parallel execution. As with so many other aspects in parallel programming, this is where experience ...

I hope that this article has shown how parallel programming is for everybody. I've listed a few examples of what I believe to be good areas to apply the concepts presented here, but I'm sure there are ...

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

The latest release of the C++ programming language, version C++11, includes a capability called Futures that allows programmers to neatly program in parallel, so a program can continue to execute ...

In "Waking Up Multi-Core Processors," I explained how programming toolkits can make parallel programming easier for certain classes of applications.

In this slidecast, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Data-Centric Parallel Programming. "To maintain performance portability in the future, it is imperative to decouple architecture-specific ...

Successful parallel programming Intel's James Reinders presents some recurring themes for developers looking to improve their game when it comes to programming parallel systems ...