Cloud
Parallel Programming Approaches for Accelerated Systems Compared
In high performance computing, machine learning, and a growing set of other application areas, accelerated, heterogeneous systems are becoming the norm. …
OpenMP
Code
Multi-Threaded Programming By Hand Versus OpenMP
For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. …
Code
The Essence Of Multi-Threaded Applications
In the prior two articles in this series (What Is SMP Without Shared Memory? …
Code
What Is SMP Without Shared Memory?
This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. …
Code
The Essentials Of Multiprocessor Programming
One near constant that you have been seeing in the pages of The Next Platform is that the downside of having a slowing rate at which the speed of new processors is increasing is offset by the upside of having a lot more processing elements in a device. …
Code
Turning OpenMP Programs into Parallel Hardware
Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things reasonably well. …
Compute
The Challenge Of Coding Across HPC Architectures
With the International Supercomputing 2016 conference fast approaching, the HPC community is champing at the bit to share insights on the latest technologies and techniques to make simulation and modeling applications scale further and run faster. …
Code
Programming Toward Exascale: A Look Ahead at OpenACC in 2016
Although there will be some meaty hardware and systems news in high performance computing over the course of 2016, this will be the year that programming models for HPC systems take center stage, especially as large supercomputing sites prepare for their first waves of pre-exascale machines. …
Code
Is OpenACC The Best Thing To Happen To OpenMP?
The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector. …