Multicore Programming Software

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公司主页 http://www.cilk.com/

Smooth Path to Multicore

The Cilk++ cross-platform solution offers the easiest, quickest, and most reliable way to maximize application performance on multicore processors. Cilk++ provides a simple set of extensions for C++, coupled with a powerful runtime system for multicore-enabled applications. Cilk++ enables rapid development, testing, and deployment of high performance multicore applications.

Cilk++ solves the two large problems facing the software industry as a result of the multicore revolution:

   1. Enabling today's mainstream programmers to develop multithreaded (or parallel) applications; and
   2. Providing a smooth path to multicore for legacy applications that otherwise cannot easily leverage the performance capabilities of multicore processors.

With Cilk++, you can retain the serial semantics of your existing applications, use existing serial methodologies for programming, tooling, debugging, and regression testing.

In the following video, Duncan McCallum, CEO of Cilk Arts, discusses the multicore programming challenge facing the industry, the mission and core values of Cilk Arts.

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原帖由 system888net 于 2009-3-12 12:46 发表
对一个任务而言,利用多核可以用多中编译器或方法进行有效的性能提升,但有一个限制就是:多核的最终效果是取决于应用的模型,而不是程序的优化手段.

对！！！共享地址空间的话这种模型可以用，地址空间不共享就得 MPI 了。再一个层次上，你的应用程序压根就没什么并行性，整什么都没意思了。
有一个编程模型就有其合适优化手段，编程模型，通常叫做模式，学习别人的模式和设计一种模式都是思维的产物，从另一个方面看，没有优化支持的模式，永远是纸上谈兵！