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Recent issues

Let's create a Highway tutorial (February 18, 2026)
January news (hear Jan Wassenberg (Google) on SIMD, and learn how to teach SPE) (January 27, 2026)
December news (Chen Ding presents the foundation of fast code -- Locality Theory 101) (December 3, 2025)
November news (learn about agile software construction with Charith Mendith) (October 28, 2025)
Community-building updates (contribute to Fastcode events at PPoPP and SciCOMP Durham) (October 22, 2025)
October news (Rich Vuduc on computation-communication overlap) (October 1, 2025)
September news (Goju Gottschlich on machine programming, and our HPEC session on task-parallel technologies for SPE.) (August 28, 2025)

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Recent posts

Stinging Stragglers: Accelerating SSSP with Priority-Aware Work Stealing by Marco D'Antonio
Co-evolution of algorithms, compilers, and hardware for performance by Bruce Hoppe
"Machine programming" vs. "ML for code" by Bruce Hoppe
Three areas where AI can help SPE by Rod Tohid
Harnessing the Power of LLMs for Software Performance Engineering by David Bader
Another look at comparing task-parallel programming platforms by Bruce Hoppe
The three ingredients to making performance engineering easier and more fun by Bruce Hoppe
Separating mechanism from policy: lock-free locks by Bruce Hoppe
Announcing OpenCilk 3.0 by Tao B. Schardl
The due diligence of optimizing parallel BFS by Bruce Hoppe
Frankenstein's program, or abstracting domain knowledge by Bruce Hoppe
Asynchronous many-task runtimes by Rod Tohid
Comparing shared-memory platforms for performance engineering by Bruce Hoppe
What the $#@! is parallelism, anyhow? by Charles E. Leiserson
Highlights from the Fastcode Programming Challenge by Bruce Hoppe
My experience teaching software performance engineering by John Owens
The importance of software performance engineering by Bruce Hoppe
The computing-performance paradox by Charles E. Leiserson

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