OpenMP - open specifications for multi-processing for the C++ and Fortran languages
Saturday, January 21st, 2006Multi-processing has been around for years. Special purpose languages (Occam, Linda, SISAL) have been created to take advantage of shared memory and parallel processing architectures in advanced computing systems. With the arrival of the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor (to appear in the Sony PlayStation 3), Sun’s multi-core UltraSPARC T1 processor, and Intel’s Core Duo Processors on Unix/Windows NT servers, desktop […]