Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

The OpenMP* API for shared memory parallelism has been around for two decades. Back in 1997, the first version of the OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) specifications attempted to provide an easy way to ...

This year, OpenMP*, the widely used API for shared memory parallelism supported in many C/C++ and Fortran compilers, turns 20. OpenMP is a great example of how hardware and software vendors, ...

In this course, you will be introduced to computing systems, software, algorithms, and methods used to solve large-scale problems in science and engineering. We will discuss algorithms as well as ...