The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library was released this week as open source under the GPLv2 (plus runtime exception) license. The library makes it much easier for programmers to take ...

Solaris implements a two-level threads architecture (see August 1998’s column as well as subsequent columns covering the process model). The two-level model is implemented by abstracting the user ...

POSIX, which defines how to call functions common to UNIX-like OSs, is a standard that guarantees that 'it will work in any environment as long as it complies with POSIX.' POSIX has supported the ...

The original Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments (Posix) standard, first published in 1990, is based on Unix, a well-established technology dating back to the early 1970s.

The embedded computing universe includes computers of all sizes, from tiny portable devices--such as wristwatch cameras--to systems having thousands of nodes distributed worldwide, as is the case with ...

In this paper, we present an extension of the SystemC simulator in order to allow its execution on an IA-64 platform. Our approach relies on adding to SystemC a new user thread package in a simple way ...