Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP ...

The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector.

When plotting scaling graphs for Intel processors which support multiple hardware threads/core, NEVERuse an X-axis labelled “Threads”, but always use “Cores”, and plot separate data for 1thread/core, ...

In this course, you will be introduced to computing systems, software, algorithms, and methods used to solve large-scale problems in science and engineering. We will discuss algorithms as well as ...

Because the August issue's theme is programming, I thought I should cover some of the more-advanced features available in OpenMP. Several issues ago, I looked at the basics of using OpenMP, so you may ...