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 ...

In short, traditional programming languages require programmers to adapt their ideas to a sequential execution model and manually identify parallel sections of code. Dataflow solutions are available ...

New parallel programming languages are key to the software side of the architectural shift. “Parallel programming languages are, I think, the most important issue in computing today,” said Smith.

Nevertheless, declarative languages are anexcellent basis for more complete parallel programming languages and,indeed pH, the language advocated in this series of articles, is basedon this idea. A ...

Parallel programming languages face a number of challenges, from technical issues and optimizations to social issues. It's unusual for most programmers to switch programming languages, and ...

In this video, Michael Wolfe from PGI continues his series of tutorials on parallel programming. “The second in a series of short videos to introduce you to parallel programming with OpenACC and the ...

Home Applications Applications Development Networking Microsoft’s Axum Parallel Programming Language Advances Written by Darryl K. Taft Published May 13, 2009 ...

Parallel-programming languages in particular tend to languish in academic obscurity. There are dozens of them—by one count, more than a hundred. None is popular.

Over at the Cray Blog, Brad Chamberlain continues his discussion on why the company chose to develop the Chapel parallel programming language. The failure of one parallel language — even a ...

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.