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 ...

This fall will mark twenty years since the publication of the v1.0 specification of OpenMP Fortran. From early loop parallelism to a heterogeneous, exascale future, OpenMP has apparently weathered ...

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Most of the legacy code that needs porting to newer systems is serial code, meaning that the code runs on a single processor with only one instruction executing at a time. Modern OpenVPX boards ...

A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old desktop has more ...

For many applications, allocating performance among all of the tasks in a system-on-chip (SoC) design is much easier, and provides greater design flexibility, with multiple CPUs than with just one ...