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 ...

Both parallel programming and asynchronous programming are examples of concurrent programming, meaning more than one operation is running at the same time. Parallel programming is a more specific form ...

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.

The latest release of the C++ programming language, version C++11, includes a capability called Futures that allows programmers to neatly program in parallel, so a program can continue to execute ...

In this video, Michael Wolfe from PGI begins a series of tutorials on parallel programming. This is the first in a series of short videos to introduce you to parallel programming with OpenACC and the ...

Foundations of parallel programming II Intel's James Reinders delves further into threading building blocks - a C++ template library for parallel programming.

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to leverage GPUs (graphics processing units) for parallel programming.

James Reinders, Intel's head of software development products, sets out some of the company's plans for encouraging more developers to switch to parallel programming. With many programmers barely ...