Friday, July 10, 2009

Using VirtualBox 3.0 Virtualization Software to Measure Multicore Scalability

Posted on http://www.ddj.com/go-parallelThe new Sun's VirtualBox virtualization software release offers very interesting features to allow developers to measure multicore scalability. As these new features were not available in previous versions, it is very important to consider them when evaluating a virtualization solution in order to test parallel performance in different operating systems and hardware environments.
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Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java

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Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don't want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.
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Using Intel Parallel Studio to teach the most difficult issues related to multi-core programming

Posted on Intel Software Network
When I finished installing Intel Parallel Studio and I saw the new toolbars integrated in Visual Studio 2008, I couldn’t help beginning to read the complete documentation for this exciting product.
I really liked the capabilities offered by Intel Parallel Studio. It helped me to work faster in order to parallelize existing serial code. It also helped me to find the most difficult bugs and to profile my applications. I do believe it is a unique tool. You’ll find a lot of information about Intel Parallel Studio on its main Website: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-parallel-studio-home/
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

A Domain-Specific Language to Let Groovy Go Parallel

Posted on http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform. It runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It supports Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). Last week, GParallelizer 0.7 release added exciting intuitive ways to handle tasks, actors and message. Great news for the Groovy community in order to go parallel.

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Work Stealing Queues in .Net 4 and in Previous Versions

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.Net 4.0 Beta 1 offers a new and improved thread pool engine. It uses work stealing queues to provide nice load-balancing capabilities, better performance and greater scalability. The work stealing mechanism allows you to reduce the scheduling overhead in highly parallelized algorithms.
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Challenges in Multi-Core Era – Part 3

Previously, I compared the performance of today’s popular operating systems with respect to multi-core processors. In this final part to Challenges in Multi-Core Era, I’ll talk about the multi-core capabilities found in today’s programming languages and development tools.
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