The Parallel Programming Guide for Every Software Developer From grids and clusters to
next-generation game consoles, parallel computing is going mainstream. Innovations such …

To improve the performance of a single application on Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), the
application must be split into threads which execute concurrently on multiple cores. In multi …

OpenMP enables the creation of shared-memory parallel programs. In this chapter, we
describe the evolution of computers that has led to the specification of OpenMP and that has …

OpenMP is a popular and evolving programming model for shared-memory platforms. It
relies on compilers to target modern hardware architectures for optimal performance. A …

OpenMP has gained wide popularity as an API for parallel programming on shared memory
and distributed shared memory platforms. Despite its broad availability, there remains a …

Our ability to create systems with large amount of hardware parallelism is exceeding the
average software developer's ability to effectively program them. This is a problem that …

This article develops several strategies for the parallelization of the metaheuristic called
scatter search, which is a population-based method that constructs solutions by combining …

In the never-ending quest for higher performance, CPUs become faster and faster.
Processor resources, however, are generally underutilized by many applications. Intel's …

In this paper we discuss our initial experiences adapting OpenMP to enable it to serve as a
programming model for high performance embedded systems. A high-level programming …

This paper presents an overview of OMPi, a portable implementation of the OpenMP API for
C, adhering to the recently released version 2.0 of the standard. OMPi is a C-to-C translator …