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For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

There’s a lot of talk these days about multicore technology and multithreaded development. The trend toward multiple compute cores is growing and having a profound impact on developers across various ...

Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. Yet ...

At Intel research day last week, one of the most impressive things I've seen to date in the parallel programming arena leapt out on center stage. I blogged earlier this month about "The death of ...

In a recent project, I had the task of programming time-consuming calculations that took place in the background of a desktop application. The motivation was to allow the user to continue working with ...

Former Ace’s writer Johan DeGalas has recently put up a good article on how the much-discussed, industry-wide move to multicore CPUs will affect PC and console gaming. The best part of the article, ...

In the past, chip manufacturers increased processor clock speed to double chip performance from 100 MHz to 200 MHz and more recently into the multigigahertz range. Today, however, increasing clock ...