“The new course will present the essential theoretical and practical foundations of parallel programming,” said Tröger. Participants will learn about important concepts such as synchronization, ...

OpenACC for Programmers: Concepts and Strategies can easily be incorporated into the syllabus of a course on parallel programming, and it can also serve as a template for a new syllabus, said ...

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware.

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 ...

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Microsoft is working on a new language for parallel programming named Axum. Formerly known as "Maestro," Axum is an incubation project that Microsoft is working on to help programmers tackle the ...

I hope that this article has shown how parallel programming is for everybody. I've listed a few examples of what I believe to be good areas to apply the concepts presented here, but I'm sure there are ...

Both parallel programming and asynchronous programming are examples of concurrent programming, meaning more than one operation is running at the same time. Parallel programming is a more specific form ...

What Is Parallel Programming? Before talking about parallel programming, let me explain two concepts closely related to it: synchronous and asynchronous execution modes. These modes are important ...

The eighth open online course offered by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), which starts on February 3, will introduce the fundamental concepts of parallel programming. Accessible to anyone via ...