Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Programming on Apr 25th, 2009
Microsoft is working on a new language for parallel programming named Axum.
Axum is an incubation project that Microsoft is working on which is focused on helping programmers tackle the issue of parallel programming in the .NET environment.
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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 Programming on Jan 29th, 2009
This looks interesting. Intel have announced QuickThread, a run-time library for writing multi-threaded applications. It works in 32 bit and 64 bit environments and with Fortran as well as C++. QuickThread* is affinity capable supporting thread affinity, data binding affinity and NUMA support.
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