Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Adding more processing cores has emerged as the primary way of boosting performance of server and PC chips, but the benefits will be greatly diminished if the industry can’t overcome certain hardware ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

As multicore processing architectures grow in popularity, suppliers are rolling out solutions to help engineers program the new breed of devices. PolyCore Software is offering a new version of its ...

Programmers will need to 'future-proof' their code to keep up-to-date in case additional cores are added to a computing system, says Intel exec at the Multicore Expo Adding more cores is desirable to ...

Although multicore technology offers a game-changing opportunity for improvements in processing performance and power efficiency, it also brings about many new design and programming challenges. As ...

Parallel programming exploits the capabilities of multicore systems by dividing computational tasks into concurrently executed subtasks. This approach is fundamental to maximising performance and ...

In embedded systems, scheduling policies control the behaviour of systems which exhibit genuine hardware parallelism and/or software concurrency. These policies may: control the order of execution of ...

More than charity lies behind Microsoft and Intel’s announcement this week that they will donate US$20 million to a pair of U.S. colleges in the hope of spurring advances in parallel, or multicore, ...

Multicore processors bring new challenges to programmers. More than half of the cost of a multicore project comes from software development. Multicore programming is particularly challenging with ...