The PGI CUDA C/C++ compiler targets multi-core x86 platforms and extends CUDA beyond the GPU into a system-wide programming model. It is a key step towards making the x86+GPU architecture an ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings about ...

Structures (or “structs” in C) allow you to group several related variables and treat them as one unit. They are a mechanism for extending the type system of the C language by introducing user-defined ...

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Multicore chips bring more power to bear on a problem while lowering power consumption—but only if programmers can take advantage of their architecture. Parallelizing compilers for vector-processing ...