The Cilk++ cross-platform solution offers the easiest, quickest, and most reliable way to maximize application performance on multicore processors. Cilk++ provides a simple set of extensions for C++, coupled with a powerful runtime system for multicore-enabled applications. Cilk++ enables rapid development, testing, and deployment of multicore applications.
Cilk++ solves the two large problems facing the software industry as a result of the multicore revolution:
- Enabling today's mainstream programmers to develop multithreaded (or parallel) applications; and
- Providing a smooth path to multicore for legacy applications that otherwise cannot easily leverage the performance capabilities of multicore processors.
With Cilk++, you can retain the serial semantics of your existing applications, use existing serial methodologies for programming, tooling, debugging, and regression testing.
In the following video, Duncan McCallum, CEO of Cilk Arts, discusses the multicore programming challenge facing the industry, the mission and core values of Cilk Arts.