Getting more from your multicore: Exploiting OpenMP from an open-source numerical scripting language

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1877-1891

  Noble, Michael S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Code generation; High level languages; Shared memory parallelism

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); ASTROPHYSICS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

CODE GENERATION; INHERENT PARALLELISM; MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGES; MODEL AND ANALYSIS; MODULE GENERATOR; REAL WORLD OPERATIONS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; SHARED MEMORY PARALLELISM;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 55349109669     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1296     Document Type: Article

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