Parallel programming exploits the capabilities of multicore systems by dividing computational tasks into concurrently executed subtasks. This approach is fundamental to maximising performance and ...

The advent of homogeneous, shared memory multicore platforms is seen as both a threat and an opportunity for the software industry. Many commentators are concerned that efficiently and correctly ...

The Multicore Association is establishing specifications for a programming model that will reduce the complexity involved in writing software for multicore chips used in smartphones, tablets and other ...

Facilitating easier development with high-performance multicore processors, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced the availability of two new evaluation modules (EVMs) for its KeyStone-based ...

From a distance it looks like a game of hot potato. But this version is played by hardware and software engineers, who normally don’t have much to do with each other. The hardware engineers say you ...

Java is fast becoming a platform for coding programs that react to events rather than simply executing a string of commands Reactive programming, in which programs react to events, is gathering steam ...

The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center has announced a series of courses this summer designed to introduce programmers to multicore programming paradigms. From their website: Our program ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...

Pervasive Software's DataRush is one of a new generation of products and platforms that aim to simplify multithreaded programming for application developers. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...