Best practices for multicore programming.

Best practices for multicore programming

edn.com 19 Feb '13, 8pm

Best practices for multicore programming.

Software "best practices" are often a combination of personal experience, corporate knowledge, group-think, and even customer requirements in some cases. As developers work to create new software or migrate existing software to exploit parallelism in multicore architectures, identifying those best practices is a significant challenge - a challenge that the MCA (Multicore Association) has addressed with its release of the MPP (Multicore Programming Practices) guide. As Markus Levy, MCA President, writes in the forward to the guide, "...it’s really a work in progress" but here's a little background on the guide, courtesy of MCA. Goal of MPP The Multicore Programming Practices guide details a concise set of best practices in software development for multicore processors using existing technology and existing software. In writing this document, the MPP working group made decis...

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