There’s a lot of talk these days about multicore technology and multithreaded development. The trend toward multiple compute cores is growing and having a profound impact on developers across various ...

Multithreaded programming isn't a new idea, but it's experiencing a major upswing in attention. That's because many multicore- chip vendors are pushing multithreading as the best way to harness their ...

In the past, chip manufacturers increased processor clock speed to double chip performance from 100 MHz to 200 MHz and more recently into the multigigahertz range. Today, however, increasing clock ...

Former Ace’s writer Johan DeGalas has recently put up a good article on how the much-discussed, industry-wide move to multicore CPUs will affect PC and console gaming. The best part of the article, ...

In a recent project, I had the task of programming time-consuming calculations that took place in the background of a desktop application. The motivation was to allow the user to continue working with ...

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Deadlocks, livelocks, and race conditions, oh my! The biggest challenge facing game companies right now is the problem of writing multithreaded code that fully supports the multiple-core architectures ...

Let’s start by revisiting what we know. We know that Solaris implements a two-layer threads model. The model defines thread abstractions at both the kernel and user layers, and user threads are ...

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As parallel computing becomes more commonplace, the next generation of developers will need new skill sets in order to get the most out of multicore chips More than charity lies behind Microsoft and ...