Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain

jmke · 22nd March 2007, 18:34

Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Programmers must begin to develop applications that take full advantage of the increasing number of cores present in modern computers. However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do. Researcher Stefanus Du Toit discusses and demonstrates RapidMind, a software system he co-authored, that takes the pain out of multi-threaded programming in C++. For his demo he created a program on the PlayStation 3 representing thousands of chickens, each independently tracked by a single processing core. The talk itself is interesting but the demo is golden. (source: Slashdot.org)

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media...evolution.html

22nd March 2007, 18:34	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,497	Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Programmers must begin to develop applications that take full advantage of the increasing number of cores present in modern computers. However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do. Researcher Stefanus Du Toit discusses and demonstrates RapidMind, a software system he co-authored, that takes the pain out of multi-threaded programming in C++. For his demo he created a program on the PlayStation 3 representing thousands of chickens, each independently tracked by a single processing core. The talk itself is interesting but the demo is golden. (source: Slashdot.org) http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media...evolution.html __________________

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