Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware. One size does not fit all, and it never will. ... The message-passing interface (MPI) ...

Written by William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Ewing Lusk, and Rajeev Thakur, the book offers a practical guide to the advanced features of the MPI (Message-Passing Interface) standard library for writing ...

In this video, Mike Bernhardt from the Exascale Computing Project catches up with ORNL's David Bernholdt at SC18. They discuss supercomputing the conference, his career, the evolution and significance ...

Scaling issues exist. Cray builds systems with 1,000's of processors. With that many processors, it's difficult to have a shared memory for all processors. This compelled Cray to develop MPI (Message ...

Many core chips are pushing programmers to look at new parallel programming tools and language extensions. Enhancing C, C++ and Java is only one method. Fig 1. Adapteva’s Epiphany 32-bit cores ...

Most clusters use NFS to share the hard drive, though more exotic filesystems exist, like IBM's General Parallel Filesystem (GPFS). For clustering software, there are a few available choices. The ...

COMP_ENG 368, 468: Programming Massively Parallel Processors with CUDA. This course is ... The initial part of the course will discuss a popular programming interface for ... thread coarsening and ...

Microsoft is working on a new language for parallel programming named Axum. Formerly known as "Maestro," Axum is an incubation project that Microsoft is working on to help programmers tackle the ...

Microsoft has come one step closer to delivering a parallel programming language to developers. On May 8, Microsoft made Axum, the company’s foray into parallel programming, available on its ...