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), sequential ...

LONDON – Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois has issued a first release of Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ), a computer programming language that it is ...

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Redmond, Wash. — Multicore processors are driving a historic shift to a new parallel architecture for mainstream computers. But a parallel programming model to serve those machines will not emerge for ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Multicore chip designs, large symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems, and clustering can bring many processors to bear on an application. But without proper software, they're simply large ...

HAVE computers stopped getting faster? If you looked only at the clock speeds of microprocessor chips, you might well think so. A modern PC typically has a processor running at 3.0GHz (3 billion clock ...

Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to ...

Over at the Cray Blog, Brad Chamberlain continues his discussion on why the company chose to develop the Chapel parallel programming language. The failure of one parallel language — even a ...