Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

Intel’s James Reinders writes that the company is now offering a set of free Intel C++ parallel programming tools (and discounts on Fortran tools) for students. These are serious tools to achieving ...

While C++ is still one of the most popular programming languages, even the latest versions have very limited features to fully utilize the parallel processing capabilities of current multi- and ...

A hands-on introduction to parallel programming and optimizations for 1000+ core GPU processors, their architecture, the CUDA programming model, and performance analysis. Students implement various ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment Now we know, because the company has just ...