Researchers present a new chip design they call Swarm, which should make parallel programs not only much more efficient but easier to write, too. Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the ...

Writing correct concurrent programs is harder than writing sequential ones. This is because the set of potential risks and failure modes is larger - anything that can go wrong in a sequential program ...

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The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...