I’m James Reinders and as I've travelled around talking to programmers about parallel programming I’ve come up with a set of rules of thumb; recurring themes about what makes programmers more ...

Intel's James Reinders presents some recurring themes for developers looking to improve their game when it comes to programming parallel systems ...

Parallel programming exploits the capabilities of multicore systems by dividing computational tasks into concurrently executed subtasks. This approach is fundamental to maximising performance and ...

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Both parallel programming and asynchronous programming are examples of concurrent programming, meaning more than one operation is running at the same time. Parallel programming is a more specific form ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...

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 ...

This month, I give a crash course in parallel programming so you can get a feel for what is involved. There are two broad categories of parallel programs: shared memory and message passing.

Parallelism is the ability to have parallel execution of tasks on systems that have multiple cores. Support for parallel programming in .NET was introduced in .NET Framework 4.