CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Parallel computer architecture and programming models. Message passing and shared memory multiprocessors. Scalability, synchronization, memory consistency, cache coherence. Memory ...

In this video from the 2014 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, James Reinders presents: Computer Architecture and Structured Parallel Programming. At ATPESC 2014, we captured 67 ...

Recently, I had the good fortune to present a class at the ACM Conference for Computer Science Educators (SIGCSE). While I definitely shared my enthusiasm for parallel programming, I had two key goals ...

It's all about peace, love, understanding and parallel computing according to Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, speaking today at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, CA. Huang made sure to ...

One of the key trends for Nvidia right now is the growth of CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), Nvidia's programming language for general-purpose GPU computing. In a keynote speech, Huang ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) were originally designed to perform the highly parallel computations required for graphics rendering. But over the last couple of years, they’ve proven to be powerful ...

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A novel parallel computing framework for chemical process simulation has been proposed by researchers from the East China University of Science and Technology and the University of Sheffield. This ...