Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously wrote about how the number of transistors on silicon chips would double roughly every two years—an observation ...

An RTOS allows you to compose your applications out of multiple sequentially -programmed threads, thus extending the sequential programming paradigm with a valuable property known as composability. In ...

Instead, he proposes to teach parallel programming first and foremost, with sequential programming being a special case of that.

In “ ParaSail: less is more with multicore, ” Taft takes another approach to migrating to a more efficient parallel programming environment. He says Parasail will allow embedded developers to stick ...

Programming general purpose multi-core processors is generally regarded as impossible, but XMOS Semiconductor has done it and is applying it in practical applications, according to the CTO of XMOS, ...

Testing concurrent programs is also harder than testing sequential ones. This is trivially true: tests for concurrent programs are themselves concurrent programs. But it is also true for another ...

Using an illustration drawn from the area of inventory control, this paper demonstrates how a typical sequential probabilistic model may be formulated in terms of (a) an initial decision rule and (b) ...

Dr. Guy Blelloch of Carnegie Mellon University has written an article for the folks at CilkArts analyzing why parallel programming seems to be more difficult than sequential programming. He quickly ...

An iteration of the sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming method (SQCQP) consists of minimizing a quadratic approximation of the objective function subject to quadratic ...

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 ...