Will 2011 be the year of parallel programming?

Posted on 19/01/2011 by softtalkblog

It was interesting to see multicore and parallel programming touted as key technologies of 2010 in some of the media round-ups I’ve read. James Turner from O’Reilly Rader noted that functional languages including Haskell, Erlang and Scala saw increased deployments in 2010, in response to the multicore challenge. I Programmer concluded that while 2010 couldn’t [...]

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Share your OpenMP experience at a leading conference

Posted on 18/01/2011 by softtalkblog

In June this year, Chicago will welcome the parallel programming community for the 2011 International Workshop on OpenMP (or IWOMP 2011, to its friends). The three-day event is aimed at programmers of all levels, from OpenMP beginners up to experienced users. It will provide an opportunity to learn about advances in multicore processors and accelerators, [...]

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Online game: Can you beat parallel program Watson at Jeopardy?

Posted on 17/01/2011 by softtalkblog

There’s a lot of buzz in the media today about the news that a computer has beaten the two all-time top players of Jeopardy, the US game show that uses word play and fast reactions to test competitors’ general knowledge and lateral reasoning skills. The computer is Watson, created by IBM, and it uses a [...]

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