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 ...

This fall will mark twenty years since the publication of the v1.0 specification of OpenMP Fortran. From early loop parallelism to a heterogeneous, exascale future, OpenMP has apparently weathered ...

oday the Parallel Programming Community on the Intel Software Network is publishing a collection of technical papers to provide developers with additional support as they are trying to learn, or ...

Most of the legacy code that needs porting to newer systems is serial code, meaning that the code runs on a single processor with only one instruction executing at a time. Modern OpenVPX boards ...

Intel director James Reinders explains the difference between task and data parallelism, and how there is a way around the limits imposed by Amdahl's Law... I'm James Reinders, and I'm going to cover ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP® Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 13, the final public comment draft of version 6.0 of the OpenMP API. Version 6.0 of the ...

According to several recent market studies, roughly 750 million cellular handsets were shipped in 2006. This quantity is likely to increase to more than one billion handsets by 2011. These numbers are ...

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 ...