Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

Intel’s James Reinders writes that the company is now offering a set of free Intel C++ parallel programming tools (and discounts on Fortran tools) for students. These are serious tools to achieving ...

The suites are built around the latest Intel v12.0 compilers for C/C++ and Fortran. The compilers are tuned for the forthcoming Intel Sandy Bridge multicore processor (see IDF Highlights Sandy Bridge ...

Microsoft has published the specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism), its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. When Microsoft first announced C++ AMP in June ...

While C++ is still one of the most popular programming languages, even the latest versions have very limited features to fully utilize the parallel processing capabilities of current multi- and ...

Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment Now we know, because the company has just ...