Victor Eijkhout: I see several problems with the state of parallel programming. For starters, we have too many different programming models, such as threading, message passing, and SIMD or SIMT ...

Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) is a way of improving the performance of a processor by executing operations simultaneously. Modern processors generally have an abundance of execution ...

The International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2017) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 14-17 in Bristol, UK. Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic ...

Just because supercomputers are engineered to be far more powerful over time does not necessarily mean programmer productivity will follow the same curve. Added performance means more complexity, ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, and Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for AI and HPC resources, today unveiled a ...

Compared with mainstream enterprise applications, compute-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) places very different demands on storage systems, so it’s not surprising a number of vendors have ...