Writing software that can simultaneously make use of multiple processors can be hard. Yet the advent of multicore processors--four cores per chip is now common--means that more and more software needs ...

The Multicore Association is establishing specifications for a programming model that will reduce the complexity involved in writing software for multicore chips used in smartphones, tablets and other ...

The number of cores–or number-crunching units–in microprocessors is doubling with each generation, providing enormous computing potential for desktops, laptops, and, eventually, handheld gadgets.

The advent of homogeneous, shared memory multicore platforms is seen as both a threat and an opportunity for the software industry. Many commentators are concerned that efficiently and correctly ...

Santa Clara, Calif. — The consensus from last week's Multicore Expo here was clear: Putting more than one core on a chip is the best way to elevate performance while keeping power under control. But ...

The evolution of computer programming has been largely independent of actual computer evolution. ­Languages such as C++ have lived through many generations of computers, and although they’ve surely ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...

There’s a lot of talk these days about multicore technology and multithreaded development. The trend toward multiple compute cores is growing and having a profound impact on developers across various ...

While many of us are just beginning to write parallel programs to use multicore, we can already see a crisis looming for those who use raw threads (p-threads or Windows threads) to implement ...