Parallel development is an essential technique for boosting the productivity of big software development teams that must make numerous changes to a large source-code base. To employ that technique, ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Today, the European Adept Project wrapped up by releasing a set of open-source energy measurement tools. Over its three-year lifespan, Adept has investigated energy consumption in parallel hardware ...

A specification called “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), a mechanism for software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multicore processing, describes technology supporting the recently ...

In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be open source and why engineers are not ...

The core concepts in hardware-software co-design are getting another look, nearly two decades after this approach was first introduced and failed to catch on. What’s different this time around is the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the rise of mass-produced automobiles, new technologies and performance features have ...

The addition of multiple cores to microprocessors has created a significant opportunity for parallel programming, but a killer application is needed to push the concept into the mainstream, ...

The programmer's Pandora's Box has been opened, and boy oh boy is it full of cores. It started out small and manageable with Intel's popular Core 2 and the Athlon 64, but it's getting out of hand ...