In a lot of our programs, we run only one additional thing at a time and wait for it to complete; this is usually referred to with the more generic term "asynchronous programming." Parallel ...

Parallel patterns have emerged from recent research on parallel programming as powerful, high-level abstractions that can elegantly capture data locality, memory access patterns, and parallelism ...

Consequently, parallel programming is about to become a way of life in our business and Mattson wants us to be ready. “Write your software for 100 processor cores,” says Mattson, “and then run it on ...