Name        : cilk                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 5.4.6                             Vendor: ALT Linux Team
Release     : alt10                         Build Date: Sun Jan 27 14:57:04 2013
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: real-sisyphus.hasher.altlinux.org
Group       : Development/C                 Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 1264429                          License: GPL v2 or later
Packager    : Eugeny A. Rostovtsev (REAL) <real at altlinux.org>
URL         : http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/
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.