Thinking Parallel

A Blog on Parallel Programming and Concurrency by Michael Suess

Archive for 2007/09

OpenMP Does Not Scale - Or Does It?

If you’re new here and like what you read, you may want to subscribe to my RSS blog feed or free email updates. Thanks for visiting!While at the Parco-Conference two weeks ago, I had the pleasure to meet Ruud van der Pas again. He is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems and gave a […]

Parallel Programming News for Week 37/2007

It has been a while since I have done a news-roundup - therefore it is time for a new one. But before I start, let me pass on a few personal remarks about my present situation. I am in the process of finishing my PhD. right now and hope to submit it for review next […]

How-to Split a Problem into Tasks

The very first step in every successful parallelization effort is always the same: you take a look at the problem that needs to be solved and start splitting it into tasks that can be computed in parallel. This sounds easy, but I can see from my students reactions that at least for some of them […]