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| Cilk |
| Computer languages | cilk + |
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| Documentation note | On line reference manual available from http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/manual-5.3.2.pdf |
| Full description | Cilk is designed for general purpose paral … 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. ees efficient and predictable performance. |
| Homepage URL | http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/ + |
| Interface | command-line + |
| Is GNU | false + |
| Keywords | development + , parallel + , parallel processing + , algorithms + , cilk + |
| Last review by | Janet Casey + |
| Last review date | 7 January 2008 + |
| License | GPLv2orlater + |
| License verified by | Janet Casey + |
| License verified date | 31 January 2001 + |
| Name | cilk + |
| Prerequisite description | GNU make + , GNU binutils + |
| Prerequisite kind | Required to build + , Weak prerequisite + |
| Real name | Matteo Frigo + |
| Related projects | Cheap Threads + , Fftw + |
| Resource URL | http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cilk-announce + , http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/cilk-users + |
| Resource audience | Help + , Bug Tracking + , Developer + , Support + |
| Resource kind | Mailing List Info/Archive + |
| Revisionid | 6,894 + |
| Revisiontimestamp | 12 April 2011 15:26:35 + |
| Revisionuser | WikiSysop + |
| Role | Maintainer + |
| Short description | Algorithmic language for multi-threaded parallel processing + |
| Software-development | programming-language + |
| Submitted by | Database conversion + |
| Submitted date | 1 April 2011 + |
| Use | software-development + |
| User level | none + |
| Version comment | 5.3.2 stable released 2002-05-18 |
| Version date | 18 May 2002 + |
| Version download | http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/cilk-5.3.2.tar.gz + |
| Version identifier | 5.3.2 + |
| Version status | stable + |
| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | 25 May 2012 02:47:51 + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Entry + |
| EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. | fftw@fftw.org + |
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