I just finished reading the new book by David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu called Programming Massively Parallel Processors. The generic title notwithstanding, readers should not come to this book expecting ...

The ISC High Performance conference announced that Professor Dr. Martin Schulz, a leading European expert in large-scale - ...

A hands-on introduction to parallel programming and optimizations for 1000+ core GPU processors, their architecture, the CUDA programming model, and performance analysis. Students implement various ...

This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

In high performance computing, machine learning, and a growing set of other application areas, accelerated, heterogeneous systems are becoming the norm. With that state come several parallel ...

GPU-based sorting algorithms have emerged as a crucial area of research due to their ability to harness the immense parallel processing power inherent in modern graphics processing units. By ...

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Workshop on OpenCL – The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, announces the immediate availability of the OpenCL™ 2.2, ...

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Programming tools that harness the computing power of CPUs and graphics processors have been updated, bringing more parallel programming capabilities to the table. Standards-setting firm Khronos Group ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...