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• Optimizing Algorithms Versus GPU Programming, Which Is Best?

  By Adrian Bridgwater, Dr. Dobb's Journal March 07, 2012

  New HPC compilers and development tools with support for OpenACC GPU directives and native CUDA C/C++ optimized for multi-core x86

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• Mastering Threads on MacOS X

  By José R.C. Cruz, Dr. Dobb's Journal March 07, 2012

  The MacOS X platform has four thread solutions — two of which are obsolete as of version 10.7. Your choices are now POSIX threads or Cocoa's NSThread class. Here's how they compare and how to get up-to-speed on them quickly.

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• Hot-Rodding Windows and Linux App Performance with CUDA-Based Plugins

  Rob Farber, Dr. Dobb's Journal February 27, 2012

  Adding GPU capabilities to existing Windows and Linux apps can be done simply using plugins and the built-in support found in CUDA. This easy form of dynamic loading enables CUDA to be used selectively to hugely accelerate individual tasks within a larger application.

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• ParKD: Parallel k-D Tree Construction in C++

  Jonathan Erickson, Dr. Dobb's Journal September 20, 2010

  k-D trees are an acceleration data structure that can enhance ray tracing. They let you organize primitives in a scene to allow efficient execution of intersection operations between rays and the primitives. See for yourself how parallel algorithms achieve up to 8x speedup on 32 cores, without degrading quality.

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• Thread Parallelism Using Cilk Notation for C/C++

  Arch Robison September 17, 2010

  Discover how fork-join and SIMD parallelism can be combined to solve computational problems.

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• ParBenCCh 1.0 Parallel C++ Benchmarking Suite

  Dr. Dobb's Journal August 26, 2010

  Learn about this C and C++ application suite designed to characterize compiler optimization capabilities and much more.

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• QuickThread: A New C++ Multicore Library

  Gaston Hillar, TechWeb, Site Moderator November 16, 2009

  Learn about QuickThread - a new commercial C++ multicore programming library loaded with many optimizations for NUMA architectures, bringing a new option to create high-performance parallelized code.

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• Larrabee's New Instructions In C++: A Prototype

  Jonathan Erickson, Dr. Dobb's Journal April 02, 2009

  Get the inside scoop on how to develop Larrabee code without a Larrabee compiler and without Larrabee hardware.

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