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 ...

Parallel development is an essential technique for boosting the productivity of big software development teams that must make numerous changes to a large source-code base. To employ that technique, ...

Today, the European Adept Project wrapped up by releasing a set of open-source energy measurement tools. Over its three-year lifespan, Adept has investigated energy consumption in parallel hardware ...

In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be open source and why engineers are not ...

For the past 20 years, the industry has sought to deploy hardware/software co-design concepts. While it is making progress, software/hardware co-design appears to have a much brighter future. In order ...

In the past few years, terms such as “multi-threading,†“multi-processing,†and marketing terms derived from these have started to appear as features for existing electronic design automation ...

Most newer video cards have stream processors built into their graphics processing unit. The GPU may also be built into the motherboard or in the central processing unit itself. Stream processing is a ...

Feature-rich consumer products and the need for these products to support increasing performance demands at lower cost and less power is not a new issue. Nor is the fact that the power ceiling has ...

The addition of multiple cores to microprocessors has created a significant opportunity for parallel programming, but a killer application is needed to push the concept into the mainstream, ...