When compiling a C program, there is an option to compile common code segment into a shared library. <BR><BR>But I don't quite understand how shared library works.<BR>Does it exists in its own process ...

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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 ...

With today’s modern computer systems that contain both a CPU and an accelerator, there are a few methods that are available to take advantage of such a system. Offloading of parts of the application ...

The European Commission has anted up €3.9 million to create a set of tools and runtime frameworks that will be used to support the exascale supercomputers to be deployed across the continent in the ...

Following the invention of the transistor in 1947, advanced circuit designers soon discovered that their discrete component designs required many unreliable, hand-soldered connections. This rendered ...