Techniques and Tools for Parallelizing Software

[en] With the emergence of multicore and manycore processors, engineers must design and develop software in drastically new ways to benefit from the computational power of all cores. However, developing parallel software is much harder than sequential software because parallelism can't be easily abstracted away. Authors Tom Mens and Hans Vandierendonck provide an overview of technologies and tools to support developers in this complex and error-prone task. I look forward to hearing from both readers and prospective authors about this column and the technologies you want to know more about.

Research center :

CREMMI - Modélisation mathématique et informatique

Disciplines :

Computer science
Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Vandierendonck, Hans

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Language :

English

Title :

Techniques and Tools for Parallelizing Software

Publication date :

01 February 2012

Journal title :

IEEE Software

ISSN :

0740-7459

Publisher :

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, United States

Pages :

14-17

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

Research institute :

R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique

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