Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FRAMEWORKS The OpenMP portable, scalable framework supports multiplatform, shared-memory parallel programming and targets SMP systems. It also supports C/C++ and Fortran and runs ...
Recently, I had the good fortune to present a class at the ACM Conference for Computer Science Educators (SIGCSE). While I definitely shared my enthusiasm for parallel programming, I had two key goals ...
Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...