Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

While C++ is still one of the most popular programming languages, even the latest versions have very limited features to fully utilize the parallel processing capabilities of current multi- and ...

C++ AMP technology links C++ to GPU and is expected to become part of the next Visual C++ compiler and integrated with Visual Studio Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to ...

This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Programming languages are a dime a dozen; throw a rock in any direction and you’ll hit one. Question is … can you use any of them to program data-centric applications that are deployable across CPUs, ...

Microsoft announced on June 15 plans to add new massively parallel-computing capabilities to the next version of its C++ compiler. The C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) technology builds ...

Microsoft has published the specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism), its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. When Microsoft first announced C++ AMP in June ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

Implemented MSI, MESI and MOESI Cache Coherence protocols in C++ and analyzed the cache performance through variation of different cache configurations. Devised a modified MOESI protocol to reduce the ...