If you have not lived under a rock, you have probably heard that the clock frequencies of our CPUs haven't increased in years, and they probably won't in the next ones. This speed barrier, imposed by the limits to miniaturization, is the driving force behind...
0 replies - 7069 views - 06/14/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Parallelism patterns for Multi-core in Java Version 1.0b2 of the Skandium Java Multi-core Library has been released at: http://skandium.niclabs.cl/
0 replies - 1574 views - 11/19/09 by Mario Leyton in Announcements
When
your boss asks you to rewrite your application to be more performant and handle
greater throughput, what do you do? Once
upon a time, when Moore’s Law held steady, all you had to do was to go drink a
soy latte, play some Doom, twiddle your thumbs for...
1 replies - 27151 views - 09/18/08 by Manik Surtani in Articles
In this article, we will explore the Map/Reduce approach to turn a sequential algorithm into parallelOverview of Map/ReduceSince
the "reduce" operation needs to accumulate results for the whole job, as
well as having a communication overhead in...
2 replies - 8485 views - 05/20/08 by Ricky Ho in News
