Programmers will need to 'future-proof' their code to keep up-to-date in case additional cores are added to a computing system, says Intel exec at the Multicore Expo Adding more cores is desirable to ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

While many of us are just beginning to write parallel programs to use multicore, we can already see a crisis looming for those who use raw threads (p-threads or Windows threads) to implement ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif. — January 5, 2011 — CriticalBlue, a pioneer in embedded multicore software analysis, exploration and verification tools, announced today the completion of a development program ...

Intel Corp. has teamed with Indian training company NIIT Ltd. to develop a global multicore processor technology training curriculum. NIIT is the only training company with which Intel is currently ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

The tools help programmers analyze machines for performance execution and correctness. In addition, Intel released a new Threading Building Blocks library, version 1.1, which includes various ...

The new operating system should be able to make better use of modern multicore chips--in part through changes to adapt Windows to big servers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Multicore is everywhere from mobile devices to the datacenter. Enter ParaSail, a new programming language designed by SofCheck CTO Tucker Taft. ParaSail uses a number of other tricks, some that draw ...