Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

The default for Intel Xeon Phi processors is to give every processor core equal access to every part of memory including the MCDRAM. That is certainly great for programs that use shared memory across ...

I have an urge to build my own computing cluster (I like messing with hardware), but I can't think what problems I could code up to make use of it.<BR><BR>Does anyone have any suggestions for ...

Targeting software developers, Cluster Toolkit 3.0 and Cluster OpenMP promise to ease the creation, debugging, and optimization of parallel applications for server clusters while facilitating the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A new year begins, and a new page opens for software development. Companies worldwide have ...

Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming language ...

Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of how close the ...