Compilers translate a program in a ... One group at Berkeley calls it the end of the “La-Z-Boy era” of sequential programming. More answers to the question “What comes after the computer ...

Recently, I had the good fortune to present a class at the ACM Conference for Computer Science Educators (SIGCSE). While I definitely shared my enthusiasm for parallel programming, I had two key ...

The authors of my Editor’s Top Picks for this week – Atego’s Kelvin Nilsen and Adacore’s S. Tucker Taft – believe that despite all the tools that allow embedded systems developers to maintain ...

Making the transition from sequential to implicit parallel programming: Part 1. Wouldn't it be great if our programs ran twice as fast merely byupgrading our workstation, desktop, server, or embedded ...

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

Programming general purpose multi-core processors is generally regarded as impossible, but XMOS Semiconductor has done it and is applying it in practical applications, according to the CTO of XMOS, ...

This permeation of sequential thinking through all things related to code has become so ingrained in us, its simply difficult to change. Wheat from Chaff: Most existing parallel programming ...