PARALLEL LANGUAGES Parallel programming on SMP architectures deals with virtual memory, pointers, and multithreading facilities that have been commonly used for decades using languages like C, C++ ...

The latest release of the C++ programming language, version C++11, includes a capability called Futures that allows programmers to neatly program in parallel, so a program can continue to execute ...

Let's start by looking at message-passing parallel programming. The most common version in use today is MPI (Message Passing Interface). MPI is actually a specification, so many different ...

OpenCL was a step in the right direction, but C++ AMP goes far further towards bridging CPU programming and GPU programming. Microsoft's next version of Visual C++ will include support for C++ AMP.

Parallel Studio XE 2011 for Linux and Microsoft Visual Studio are priced at $2249 and $1899 respectively. The Intel C++ Studio XE 2011 alone is priced at $1499 for both platforms.

Microsoft has published a specification for its new C++ AMP heterogeneous parallel programming system, which provides a clean and natural way for C++ programmers to write GPU-accelerated software.