Many movies have explored the great things humans could do if only they had access to 100 percent of the brain’s cognitive powers. While the myth persists that humans only use 10 percent of their ...

Rising development costs motivate companies to design fewer systems-on-chip, but to make each one they do design more flexible and programmable. Doing so makes it possible to reuse designs to take ...

Transactional memory systems represent a significant advancement in concurrent programming by allowing grouped sequences of operations to execute atomically. This paradigm reduces the complexity ...

Most high-performance compilers aim to parallelize loops to speed-up technical codes. Automatic parallelization is possible but extremely difficult because the semantics of the sequential program may ...