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 ...

Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...

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 ...

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.

Since the early 2000s, the CPU industry has shifted from raw clock speed to core counts. Pat Gelsinger famously took the stage in 2002 and gave the talk the industry needed, stating processors needed ...