Multicore processors have been around for many years, and today, they can be found in most devices. However, many developers are doing what they've always done: creating single-threaded programs. They ...
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 ...
Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...
Supercomputers often conjure up images of government labs with racks of processors and little concern for budgets. Actually, highperformance servers and clusters of multiple processors are in wide use ...
The world's fastest supercomputer can now perform 200,000 trillion calculations per second, and several companies and government agencies around the world are competing to build a machine that will ...
Now that COVID-19 vaccines are available, administering them rapidly to hundreds of millions of people presents a tremendous logistical challenge. The vaccination program running in my hometown shows ...