Author's Blogs
Posted Agosto 5th 20101
Phase 1 of the Intel Threading Challenge 2010contest ended a few weeks ago. If you participated in the Phase 1 contest, I hope you got some rest and could enjoy a portion of the Summer months; if you didn't participate, I hope you were ...
Posted Junio 8th 20107
I just saw a description of the book Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan. The book's topic is described in the subtitle: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving. It's a cool title that makes you want to stop and see what it’s all about.
It got me thinking. I ...
Posted Junio 4th 20100
I just read a report in New Scientist online magazine entitled "DNA logic gates herald injectable computers". The article discusses work done at the Hebrew University of ...
Posted Junio 1st 20100
We've started a new Intel Threading Challenge Programming Contest on Monday, 31 MAY. The initial phase will have two problems, with a prize for winning each. A second phase will launch in August with four problems ...
Posted Mayo 24th 20100
Welcome to Show 77 of Parallel Programming Talk originally broadcast on May 18th, 2010. On the show Clay talked with Prof. Charles Leiserson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cilk Arts) about why programmers don't get good speed up in their parallel programs. (Aaron was on vacation this ...
Posted Mayo 17th 20100
At this year's SIGCSE conference, I sat in on the last half of the Birds of a Feather session on Curricula in Concurrency and Parallelism. Toward the end of the session, someone made a comment like "We are teaching parallelism with such low level-languages, methods, and tools." I kept my mouth ...
Posted Mayo 17th 20103
I was recently told that there are some Computer Science professors that refuse to teach with threads in support of their parallel programming curriculums. The reasons given for this practice were that threads are hard to use and there is likely something better on the horizon for parallel ...
Posted Mayo 14th 20101
Clay and Aaron recently took a trip to the super secret location housing the Intel® Manycore Testing Lab to find out what it is all about and to see how a 32-core processing platform is built. ...
Posted Mayo 14th 20102
My book, The Art of Concurrency (O'Reilly 2009), has just been selected for Intel Corporation’s Recommended Reading List! Developers ...
Posted Mayo 12th 20101
Welcome to Show 75 of Parallel Programming Talk originally broadcast on May 4th, 2010. On the show Clay and Aaron talked with John McHugh about the release of Intel Threading Building Blocks 3.0 and answered a Listener Question. ...