LabVIEW’s dataflow nature means that any time code has a parallel sequence on the block diagram, the separate code paths will try to execute at the same time (Fig. 1).

Streams can be any isolated piece of data, such as a stream of business events or a set of scientific data. Parallel operations are applied on streams with operators, such as split, compute or merge.

Both parallel programming and asynchronous programming are examples of concurrent programming, meaning more than one operation is running at the same time. Parallel programming is a more specific form ...

Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft's Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to ...

Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API is released, which opens up parallel programming to new applications, makes it easier to develop parallel programs, and gives more fine grain control to the developer.