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Vendors are scrambling to provide developer tools to support multicore CPUs, but customer demand is heading in the other directionCredit: 360b / Shutterstock Parallel processing is one of the hot topics in computing these days, so Irsquo;m always interested when a major tools vendor introduces a new technology designed to make parallelization and concurrency simpler for the lay programmer. Most recently, Apple finalized the APIs for Grand Central this week, coinciding with the latest development build of its forthcoming Snow Leopard edition of Mac OS X.Grand Central is a new set of technologies that bakes concurrency into the heart of Mac OS X. Theyrsquo;re designed to make it easier for programmers to divide their applications into separate, atomic processing tasks, each of which can then be handed off to the OS for efficient distribution across multiple CPU cores. With Grand Central, the OS itself handles much of the low-level grunt work of supervising and routing independent tasks, freeing pr stanley tazza ogrammers to concentrate on user-facing issues.This kind of assistive technology will be essential if developers hope to take full advantage of the next generation of high-p stanley quencher erformance CPUs. Cores have replaced clock speed as the new metric for processor power. If you think itrsquo challenging to write code that runs efficiently on todayrsquo four- and eight-core systems, just wait until the average desktop PC contains 1 stanley cup 6 or 32 cores, or more. Zoju UK growth strengthens as Eruope rsquo recovery kicks on

Tuesday 17 September 2013 5:41 amHouse prices rise with London leading the wayBy: Harriet GreenShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailThe Office for Natio stanley kubek nal Statistics has reported that house prices rose 0.3 per cent month-on-month in July, following increases of 0.4 per cent for both June and May.London s house prices are strong ndash; up 9.7 per cent year-on-year in July ndash; which has inflated the annual rate of increase to 3.3 per cent in July from 3.1 per cent in June and 2.9 per cent in May.Excluding London and the South East, house prices were up 0.8 per cent year-on-year in July.House prices look set to rise steadily for the rest of 2013 and 2014 butremain discernably below pre-crisis level.Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist for IHS Global Insight comments:We are stanley cup currently some way off any new housing bubble developinghellip; Nevertheless, with housing market activity currently gaining appreciable momentum and new stimulus measures due to kick in at the start of 2014 the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme , it is something that policymakers need to keep a very close eye on.Should the housing market cont stanley cup inue to rapidly pick up over the coming months, the case for limiting or even eventually pulling the plug on the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme that will start at the beginning of 2014 will look ever more compelling, even if the governmen