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 ...

Beaverton, Ore.-based fabless semiconductor company Ambric Inc. that touts what it says is the world’s first teraOPS-class processor, today is releasing its aDesigner, a software development tool ...

This course focuses on developing and optimizing applications software on massively parallel graphics processing units (GPUs). Such processing units routinely come with hundreds to thousands of cores ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and more, embedded systems, so-called for their habitat inside other systems, have been flushed out of hiding and into the hands of billions of ...

Supercomputers often conjure up images of government labs with racks of processors and little concern for budgets. Actually, highperformance servers and clusters of multiple processors are in wide use ...