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Cilk

Cilk, Cilk++, Cilk Plus and OpenCilk are general-purpose programming languages designed for multithreaded parallel computing. They are based on the C and C++ programming languages, which they extend with constructs to express parallel loops and the fork–join idiom.

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Designed by
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Developer
Intel
First appeared
1994
Paradigm
imperative (procedural), structured, parallel
Typing discipline
static, weak, manifest

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Cilk

Nodes56
Edges55
Triples105
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035714
Components1

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Cilk

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related to Intel Cilk Plus · 17
Cilk → An, BSD-licensed, Cilk Arts, Cilk Plus, Clang, Compiler, GCC, GNU Compiler Collection, In, In February, Intel, Intel Cilk Plus, Intel Composer XE, Intel Corp, On July, September, The Intel Compiler
related to Cilk Arts and Cilk++ · 12
Cilk → Cilk Arts, Cilk-to-C, December, GNU, It, Leiserson, Like, Microsoft, October, Prior, Series, The
related to External links · 11
Cilk → Cilk Plus, July, Language Support, MITArch, Official, OpenCilkIntel's Cilk Plus, Parallel Programming, Project, Robison, Thread, Vector Parallelism
related to MIT Cilk · 10
Cilk → C-based, CM-5, Computer Science, Machine, MIT Laboratory, PCM/Threaded-C, StarTech, The Cilk, Theoretical, Thinking Machines Corporation's Connection
related to OpenCilk · 9
Cilk → After Cilk Plus, Intel, Intel Cilk Plus, Its, LLVM/Clang, March, MIT, OpenCilk, Tapir
related to Deprecation of Cilk Plus · 6
Cilk → Cilk Plus, GCC, In May, Intel, Intel Software Development Tools, September
related to Parallel loops · 5
Cilk → Although, Cilk Plus, The, These, This
related to Reducers and hyperobjects · 5
Cilk → Cilk Plus, Each, OpenMP, The, This
related to Work-stealing · 5
Cilk → Again, If, It, The, The Cilk
related to Differences between versions · 4
Cilk → Cilk Plus, In, MIT Cilk, Since Cilk

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plus intel parallel code mit processor procedure spawn frame opencilk function call execution programming compiler keyword would processors fib scheduler

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CilkDesigned byMIT Laboratory for Computer Science1.00infobox
CilkDeveloperIntel1.00infobox
CilkFirst appeared19941.00infobox
CilkParadigmimperative (procedural), structured, parallel1.00infobox
CilkTyping disciplinestatic, weak, manifest1.00infobox
CilkWebsitecilk.mit.edu1.00infobox
Cilkrelated to Array notationIntel Cilk Plus0.60section
Cilkrelated to Array notationCilk Plus0.60section
Cilkrelated to Cilk Arts and Cilk++Prior0.60section
Cilkrelated to Cilk Arts and Cilk++The0.60section
Cilkrelated to Cilk Arts and Cilk++Cilk Arts0.60section
Cilkrelated to Cilk Arts and Cilk++Leiserson0.60section

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