Pei and colleagues show that introduction of the pluripotency reprogramming factors in sequence (Oct4–Klf4, c-Myc and finally Sox-2), rather than introducing them all together, increases ...

This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents BlocklyPar, a set of three tutorial games to move from sequential to parallel programming using a block-based visual language. Block-based tutorial games ...

But, in addition, most existing approaches to producing parallelprograms are very hard, whether they involve automatically convertingexisting sequential programs into parallel ones, or whether ...

Undergraduate courses tend to focus on sequential programming—not surprisingly, since the industry is still dominated by sequential code except in a few specialist niches, and most programmers ...

Writing a sequential program in an imperative programming language is much easier than writing a distributed algorithm. This paper describes an approach to representing, testing, and verifying ...

In “ ParaSail: less is more with multicore, ” Taft takes another approach to migrating to a more efficient parallel programming environment. He says Parasail will allow embedded developers to stick ...

An iteration of the sequential quadratically constrained quadratic programming method (SQCQP) consists of minimizing a quadratic approximation of the objective function subject to quadratic ...

Güzin Bayraksan, David P. Morton, A Sequential Sampling Procedure for Stochastic Programming, Operations Research, Vol. 59, No. 4 (July • August • 2011), pp. 898-913 ...

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously wrote about how the number of transistors on silicon chips would double roughly every two years—an observation ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...