Nvidia has unveiled a new compiler source code to add new languages to its parallel programming and boost the adoption of GPUs.

This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

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 ...

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For decades, parallel computing–the tricky job of dividing programming tasks among a number of processors–has been the province of academics who write programs for supercomputers.

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.