Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...
The computer industry has a problem. As Moore's law marches on, we will be exploiting it to double cores, not frequencies. But all those cores ... 2 to 4 today growing to 8, ...
—There are many APIs for connecting and exchanging data between network peers. Each interface varies wildly based on metrics including performance, portability, and complexity. S...
Scott Atchley, David Dillow, Galen M. Shipman, Pat...
OpenMP has gained wide popularity as an API for parallel programming on shared memory and distributed shared memory platforms. Despite its broad availability, there remains a need ...
Chunhua Liao, Oscar Hernandez, Barbara M. Chapman,...
—In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code, and it is error-prone and...