“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” opens “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. The passage referred to the French Revolution, but today it could refer to the revolution ...

Multicore chip designs, large symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems, and clustering can bring many processors to bear on an application. But without proper software, they're simply large ...

San Jose, Calif. — Intel Corp. researchers are working on a set of application-specific languages they hope will help programmers harvest more parallelism in multicore processors. Gaming and ...

As modern .NET applications grow increasingly reliant on concurrency to deliver responsive, scalable experiences, mastering asynchronous and parallel programming has become essential for every serious ...

Cremains the most popular embedded programming language, and it has been number one for years. Still, your toolkit should include a bit more, especially when dealing with trends like the new and ...

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 computer ...

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 ...

Microsoft has shared bits and pieces about its plans to target multicore/many-core architectures, but there is much the company still hasn't shared publicly. According to sources, Microsoft is working ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...