Traditionally, sequential languages have been the norm, though different languages with different programming constructs (i.e., C versus VHDL) have been required to take advantage of multicore ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming techniques underpin many of today’s most demanding computational tasks, from complex scientific simulations to data-intensive analytics.

A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...