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Parallel Feature Articles
The Quiet Revolution in Programming
During the last two years, one of the longest eras in programming has quietly drawn to a close.
Numerical and Computational Optimization on the Intel Phi
How tuning functions for large data sets and profiling the results gets most of the benefits of the Phi's 60 cores without hand wringing and late-night hacking.
Getting to 1 Teraflop on the Intel Phi Coprocessor
The key to truly high performance with the Phi coprocessor is to express sufficient parallelism and vector capability to fully utilize the device. Here is a timing framework that enables you to measure and optimize performance and push it past 1 teraflop.
Concurrent Programming with Chain Locking
Concurrent access to trees and lists requires carefully managed fine-grained locking. Here's a generic solution in C# that removes many of the typical problems.
Task-Based Programming in Windows
Convert programs into a series of independent executable parallel tasks.
Parallel News
Intel's Silvermont Microarchitecture
Silvermont features new multicore and system fabric architecture scalable up to eight cores, enabling greater performance for higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient out-of-order support for a better balanced and responsive system.
Perceptual Computing
Using the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK 2013, developers can create applications that take advantage of the SDK’s core capabilities for handling close-range hand and finger tracking, speech recognition, face analysis, and augmented reality.
Symphony In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Minor
Low-key release features identity management tools
Otellini to Retire
Intel Corporation announced that the company's president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as of May 2013.
Allinea Tools Up For Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Developer tools for highly parallel workloads
Parallel Debugging A Swedish Supercomputer
National strategic HPC network in Scandinavia implements Allinea Software
Parallel Gets Simpler, Faster, With Nvidia CUDA 5
Pervasive parallel programming platform pushes productivity
New Parallel and Cluster Studio XE Developer Suites From Intel
Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 Software Development Suites
Source-Code Analysis Must Hit Lower False Positive Rates
GrammaTech CodeSonar 3.8 for defect precision
Parallel Computing's "Fundamental" Change: Transactional Memory
Association for Computing Machinery heralds "historical" papers from the '90s
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
How to Select a PaaS Partner
Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.
