Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

The quake on the nation’s main island, Java, destroyed hundreds of buildings, and officials feared that many people were still trapped beneath the rubble. By Seth Mydans BANGKOK — A powerful ...

Test code usage: Launch 4 processes and make a sum operation on the shared numpy array with shared_memory in each process. from multiprocessing import shared_memory ...

Accessing an index of an array in shared memory (allocated outside) a kernel throws an illegal memory access error. If a cuDeviceArray (array in GPU shared memory) is ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...

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ABSTRACT: Today, an ever increasing number of natural scientists use computers for data analysis, modeling, simulation and visualization of complex problems. However, in the last decade the computer ...

A google search for “threads are evil” generates 18,000 hits, but threads—evil or not—are ubiquitous. Almost all of the processes running on a modern Windows PC use them. Software threads are ...

Abstract: The up trend in the number of cores in cluster architectures underscores the need for scalable communication middleware on these systems. One of the strategies to take advantage of this ...