Apple’s Grand Central a new set of technologies released with Snow Leopard designed to make parallelisation and concurrency simpler for programmers. Apple has extended Objective-C which now includes support for closures and makes it easier to implement control structures that support concurrency. In essence Grand Central makes it easier to write parallelisable software.
Similarily Microsoft recently [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 8th, 2009
In a scoop for Intel, it looks like the next generation games consoles will have Intel Larrabee and not Nvidia. This means that whole host of programmers will get up to speed in programming for the Larrabee which is exactly what Intel no doubt intended. This is just one more step on the road to Intel [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Programming on Jan 19th, 2009
NVIDIA has announced announced it is now working closely with Wipro to provide CUDA™ professional services to their joint customers worldwide.
CUDA is NVIDIA’s parallel computing architecture which is accessible through the C language programming environment. It has already delivered huge leaps in performance across many industries, particularly in Finance. Wipro’s Product Engineering Services group aim [...]
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