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cilk
Cilk is designed for general purpose parallel programming, but it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic asynchronous, parallelism.
The current release runs on symmetric multiprocessor machines that support Posix threads, GNU make, and gcc. You can also run Cilk on uniprocessor machines, which is useful for development and debugging, although you won't get any parallel speedup.
According to cilk, a programmer should structure a program to expose parallelism and exploit locality, leaving the runtime system to schedule the computation to run efficiently. Thus, the runtime system handles details like load balancing, paging, and communication protocols. Unlike other multithreaded languages, however, cilk is algorithmic in that the runtime system guarantees efficient and predictable performance.
Last updated 7 Jan, 2008
About
Leadership
- Matteo Frigo - Maintainer
Requirements
- GNU make (Build Prerequisite)
- GNU binutils (Weak Prerequisite)
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Versions
5.3.2
5.3.2 stable released 2002-05-18
- Released: 18 May, 2002
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/cilk-5.3.2.ta...
- Licenses: GPLv2orlater
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
On line reference manual available from http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/manual-5.3.2.pdf