This course is designed for scientists, engineers, students, and professionals looking to develop efficient solutions for high-performance and distributed computing systems. It focuses on parallel ...

In this slidecast, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Data-Centric Parallel Programming. The ubiquity of accelerators in high-performance computing has driven programming complexity beyond the ...

Data intensive applications that rely heavily on huge databases waste a lot of time in searching and retrieval especially if there is a single server retrieving data from the database. This paper ...

When I wrote about password guessing using GPUs last week, I mentioned that password guessing is an embarrassingly parallel problem, right up there with 3-D rendering, face recognition, Monte Carlo ...

MPI may be the de facto standard for communication, but it is not the only library. While MPI attempts to be broad in scope, its message semantics are actually quite limited. Some developers have had ...