Package cilk: Information
Binary package: cilk
Version: 5.4.6-alt5
Architecture: i586
Build time: Feb 10, 2011, 12:17 PM
Source package: cilk
Category: Development/C
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Home page: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/
License: GPL v2 or later
Summary: Language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C
Description:
Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is designed for general-purpose parallel programming, but it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style. Using Cilk, our group has developed three world-class chess programs, StarTech, *Socrates, and Cilkchess. Cilk provides an effective platform for programming dense and sparse numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations, and we are working on other types of applications. Unlike many other multithreaded programming systems, Cilk is algorithmic, in that the runtime system employs a scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately based on abstract complexity measures.
Maintainer: Eugeny A. Rostovtsev
Last changed
Feb. 10, 2011 Eugeny A. Rostovtsev 5.4.6-alt5
- Rebuilt for debuginfo
Oct. 22, 2010 Eugeny A. Rostovtsev 5.4.6-alt4
- Rebuilt with set-versioned libperfctr
Oct. 19, 2010 Eugeny A. Rostovtsev 5.4.6-alt3
- Rebuilt for soname set-versions