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 ...

Compilers are programs that convert computer code written in high-level languages intelligible to humans into low-level instructions executable by machines. But there's more than one way to implement ...

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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 on ...

Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

Victor Eijkhout: I see several problems with the state of parallel programming. For starters, we have too many different programming models, such as threading, message passing, and SIMD or SIMT ...

Supercomputing 2015– November 16th 2015 – Austin, TX –The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, today announced the ratification and public release of the ...

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), sequential ...