Amdahl’s law in the multicore era
This has been a frequent topic of discussion in multicore and related events I’ve attended over the past couple of years. This video gets into the discussion of multicore versus single-threaded...
View ArticleNew lecture: concepts in multicore programming
A new lecture has been produced by Cilk Arts, looking at the challenge of multicore programming. The lecture starts by reviewing the emergence of multicore chips, and then addresses some of the...
View ArticleDistributing concurrent tasks on multicore architectures
More advanced parallel programmers and those with an academic bent might want to take a look at a paper that has come from research at MIT. The interesting thing is that it looks at memory handling in...
View ArticleIDF 2010: A parallel education
I wasn’t sure what to expect from a session entitled “Parallelism and Education: Navigating through a Sea of Cores” at the Intel Developer Forum 2010. While the study of parallel programming at...
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