A new technical paper titled “MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads” was published by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. “In this work, ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

Funded under the European Commission's IST programme, the POP project focused on generating an environment to allow applications designed using the OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) to ...

This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. This time around we are going to look at some of the normally little considered effects of having memory being shared ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

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More databases and data stores and the applications that run atop them are moving to in-memory processing, and sometimes the memory capacity in a single big iron NUMA server isn’t enough and the ...