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cilk - Algorithmic language for multi-threaded parallel processing

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.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/
Source tarballhttp://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/cilk-5.3.2.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/home/software.html
Version 5.3.2 (stable) released on 2002-05-18
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
On line reference manual available from http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk/manual-5.3.2.pdf
Support contacts

Announce List<cilk-announce@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cilk-announce
Help List<cilk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cilk-users
Developer List<cilk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cilk-users
Bug List<cilk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cilk-users

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • MIT LCS Supercomputing Technologies Group
  • led by Prof. Charles E. Leiserson
Sponsors
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagescilk
Supported languagesC
Build prerequisitesGNU make
Weak prerequisitesGNU binutils
Related programsfftw

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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