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How Data Dependence Affects Performance
Data dependence between statements is a straightjacket on the compiler's ability to optimize code for parallelism. So to get the maximum benefit from parallel code, data dependence must be carefully managed
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The Intel Threading Building Blocks Flow Graph
User feedback inspired the flow graph feature in Intel Threading Building Blocks, which allows programmers to express static and dynamic dependency graphs, as well as reactive or event-based graphs.
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Dataflow Programming: Handling Huge Data Loads Without Adding Complexity
Manage the data pipelines rather than webs of threads and processes
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Language of the Month: Intel's Cilk Plus
The latest C/C++ language extension to facilitate parallel programming
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Fast, High-Quality, Parallel Random-Number Generators: Comparing Implementations
For optimal performance, subcycle RNGs can be shaped many different ways according to application need and processor capabilities
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Introducing Multithreading to Mature Desktop Applications
A crash course tutorial
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Parallel Memory Subtlety
For multithreaded software to run optimally, developers must understand subtle aspects of memory access
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Avoiding Classic Threading Problems
Too many threads running, too many held locks, and too many threads waiting on a lock are problems that can be solved with a little know-how
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Fast, High-Quality, Parallel Random Number Generators
Very fast, parallel random number generation is possible on modern PCs, but it requires new algorithms to meet the most stringent randomness tests
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The Serial On-Ramp to the Multicore Highway: Preparing to Parallelize Code
What are the rules of the road for getting code ready for a parallel world?
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Better Multicore Energy Conservation on Mobile Devices with Virtualization
For apps and operating systems executing on multicore mobile devices, embedded virtualization — a radical idea — provides energy savings
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Fast, Parallelized CRC Computation Using the Nehalem CRC32 Instruction
A fast and efficient method of computing a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on Intel processors for the fixed (degree-32) iSCSI polynomial, using the CRC32 instruction introduced in Intel Core i7 processors
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Parallel Merge Sort
Improving the algorithm via performance measurement
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This Month's Multicore Reading List
The Cloud, HPC, and Concurrency on the JVM
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A Base Class for Intrusively Reference-Counted Objects in C++
If you want to use Boost's intrusive_ptr, but have no reference counter at hand, here is a starting point
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Fantom
Fantom generates JavaScript, Java bytecodes, and .NET binaries
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Improving OLTP Database Throughput via Batching
How to improve throughput for On-line Transaction Processing (OLTP) database applications without introducing the overhead of contention between threads
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Parallel Merge
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 12
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Silverlight Developers, Take Note
Beta tool checks how an app runs across multiple threads
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Parallel In-Place Radix Sort Simplified
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 11
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Tough Apps: Pretty Good at Half the Speed
The traveling salesman project gets the glory, but the mother of practical scheduling algorithms is the shop scheduling problem
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Top 5 Security Trends for 2011
Malware will increasingly be targeted at 64-bit machines, amongst other predictions from Fortinet
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Cloud Computing on Rich Data
Advances in sensing technologies are yielding vast quantities of data that must either be processed on the fly or archived for later consumption, or both
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Algorithm Performance
A Reflection on Parts 1-9
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The Evolution of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Moving beyond BIOS with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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