Every few years or so, a development in computing results in a sea change and a need for specialized workers to take advantage of the new technology. Whether that’s COBOL in the 60s and 70s, HTML in ...

As the name Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) suggests, GPU processors are designed for image and video processing on computers–but they’re also optimized for extremely fast, highly parallel computation ...

Over at Dr. Dobbs, Rob Farber writes that, when used correctly, atomic operations can help implement a wide range of generic data structures and algorithms in the massively threaded GPU programming ...