Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

Microsoft has released details of its new C++ technology, dubbed C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), which aims to make parallel programming easier for "millions" of developers. Herb Sutter ...

Intel’s James Reinders writes that the company is now offering a set of free Intel C++ parallel programming tools (and discounts on Fortran tools) for students. These are serious tools to achieving ...

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Microsoft announced on June 15 plans to add new massively parallel-computing capabilities to the next version of its C++ compiler. The C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) technology builds ...

November 18, 2019 - On Sunday and the Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver during his keynote presentation, Intel’s senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of architecture, ...

From your smartphone to your laptop, today’s tech devices glean their computing power from multi-core processors. Supercomputers contain thousands of cores, and within three to four years a computer ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming techniques underpin many of today’s most demanding computational tasks, from complex scientific simulations to data-intensive analytics. This ...