Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

Though the use of multiple processors has grown in recent years, multiprocessor computers are more than 30 years old. Since this time, their capabilities have evolved as much as their implementation.

The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this ...

Learn how to use Python’s async functions, threads, and multiprocessing capabilities to juggle tasks and improve the responsiveness of your applications. If you program in Python, you have most likely ...

Last year at the Multicore Expo, I was asked why there were not more embedded developers at the conference. After some thought, I pointed out that the discussion at the conference was dominated by how ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Python is a highly concise and expressive language that enables developers to accomplish complex ...

When we hear the term “multiprocessing,” we often associate it with “symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).” This is because of SMP’s initial prevalence in the high-performance computing world, and now in ...

Because the dimensions of lithography are now closer to the fundamental physical limits, scaling is more and more difficult and thus multi-core processor solutions are just starting to be more popular ...

[Housekeeping]: There are two sets of posts going out in this series – the series here and the series in our guest blog. Today’s guest post is from David Stewart at CriticalBlue about multicore ...