oneTBB is a flexible C++ library that simplifies the work of adding parallelism to complex applications, even if you are not a threading expert. The library lets you easily write parallel programs ...

Have we reached peak humanity? Johan Norberg’s history of civilisation is an impressive conceptual achievement – but it has little to say about our own age of digital overload. By Ed Smith The spectre ...

Deep learning-based saturation transfer magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is an emerging approach for noninvasive in vivo imaging of proteins, metabolites and pH. It involves a series of steps, ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

Learn how to use Python’s async functions, threads, and multiprocessing capabilities to juggle tasks and improve the responsiveness of your applications. If you program in Python, you have most likely ...

Namazu (formerly named Earthquake) is a programmable fuzzy scheduler for testing real implementations of distributed system such as ZooKeeper. Namazu permutes Java function calls, Ethernet packets, ...

Operating system (OS) kernels form the backbone of system software. They can have a significant impact on the resilience and security of today’s computers. Recent efforts have demonstrated the ...

The decision letter from the journal was very supportive – it was clear our paper (Kirkegaard et al., 2016) would be published – but one of the referees definitely did not like the way we had combined ...

Abstract: This paper characterizes selected workloads of multimedia applications on current superscalar architectures, and then it characterizes the same workloads on Intel hyper-threading technology.