The advent of homogeneous, shared memory multicore platforms is seen as both a threat and an opportunity for the software industry. Many commentators are concerned that efficiently and correctly ...

Intel and AMD threw programmers a curve ball when they forsook faster clock speeds for multicore chips, but Snow Leopard introduces real technology to help compensate.

QNX’s own multicore programming model is called bounded multiprocessing (BMP), a hybrid combination of AMP and SMP. To allow its use on a wide variety of multiprocessing hardware and software ...

In "Waking Up Multi-Core Processors," I explained how programming toolkits can make parallel programming easier for certain classes of applications.

Pervasive Software's DataRush is one of a new generation of products and platforms that aim to simplify multithreaded programming for application developers.

Microsoft's Dave Probert sees the OS kernel of the future acting more like a hypervisor in order to better harness the power of multicore processors ...

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 ...

Mattson takes things a bit further by drawing parallels between choice overload and multi-core programming languages.

The OS could assign an application a CPU and some memory, and the program itself, using metadata generated by the compiler, would best know how to use these resources.

The OS could assign an application a CPU and some memory, and the program itself, using metadata generated by the compiler, would best know how to use these resources.