The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector.

OpenMP is probably the most popular tool in the world to parallelize applications running on processors, but ironically it is not a product, but rather a specification that those who make compilers ...

Because the August issue's theme is programming, I thought I should cover some of the more-advanced features available in OpenMP. Several issues ago, I looked at the basics of using OpenMP, so you may ...

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 ...

When plotting scaling graphs for Intel processors which support multiple hardware threads/core, NEVERuse an X-axis labelled “Threads”, but always use “Cores”, and plot separate data for 1thread/core, ...