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Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just ...

Microsoft announced on June 15 plans to add new massively parallel-computing capabilities to the next version of its C++ compiler. The C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) technology builds ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...