Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 18, June 2014

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor, by James Reinders
  Speaking in Code
   
• Graduate from MIT to GCC Mainline with Intel® Cilk™ Plus
  Intel® Cilk™ Plus provides a higher level of abstraction than other threading frameworks. This article explores its capabilities for expressing task and data parallelism.
   
• Flow Graphs, Speculative Locks, and Task Arenas in Intel® Threading Building Blocks
  A look at Intel® TBB features, including the flow graph interface, speculative locks that take advantage of the Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) technology, and user-managed task arenas that provide enhanced concurrency control and work isolation.
   
• 20 Years of the MPI Standard: Now with a Common Application Binary Interface
  Examines MPI compatibility issues and resolution, as well as the potential of the upcoming common MPI Application Binary Interface (ABI).
   
• Mastering Performance Challenges with the New MPI-3 Standard
  Find out how to measure the overlap of communication and computation, and how an MPI application can benefit from nonblocking collective communication.
   
• An OpenMP* Timeline
  An infographic time-capsule of OpenMP*.
   
• Leverage Your OpenCL™ Investment on Intel® Architectures
  Get more out of OpenCL™—from cross-device portability to the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor.