I came across a new (to me) suite of benchmarks today at Dr Dobbs’ Go Parallel website. They provide C and C++ simulations that are designed to test compiler optimisation, language support, the overhead of object-oriented programming and the hardware performance. Two of the tests are focused on parallel performance. An OpenMP based test repeatedly [...]
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While looking for new parallel programming blogs this week, I stumbled across an ancient but timeless blog post by Joey deVilla. In it, he has collected together some of the most common laws of software development. Some of these you will be familar with. Readers of this blog will know all about Amdahl’s Law, and [...]
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Blogger András Vajda has suggested a new approach to meeting the challenge of manycore processors. He works at Ericsson and blogs his own views about parallel programming, among other topics. His starting point is familiar to you: Within ten years, we could have chips with tens of thousands of cores on them, he reasons. How will [...]
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