Cilk

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Cilk

Summary

Cilk is a parallel programming language[1]. Cilk draws 32 Wikipedia views per month (parallel_programming_language category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cilk was influenced by Q15777[3].
  • Cilk's instance of is recorded as parallel programming language[4].
  • Cilk's instance of is recorded as programming language[5].
  • Cilk's developer is recorded as Charles E. Leiserson[6].
  • +1994-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Cilk[7].
  • Cilk's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03s8dh[8].
  • Cilk's official website is recorded as https://www.cilkplus.org/[9].
  • Cilk's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/cilk[10].
  • Cilk's different from is recorded as SYCL[11].
  • Cilk's programming paradigm is recorded as imperative programming[12].
  • Cilk's programming paradigm is recorded as parallel computing[13].
  • Cilk's programming paradigm is recorded as procedural programming[14].
  • Cilk's programming paradigm is recorded as structured programming[15].
  • Cilk's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778522416[16].
  • Cilk's typing discipline is recorded as static typing[17].
  • Cilk's typing discipline is recorded as weak typing[18].
  • Cilk's typing discipline is recorded as manifest typing[19].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include parallel programming language[4] and programming language[5].

History and Context

+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Cilk[7].

Why It Matters

Cilk draws 32 Wikipedia views per month (parallel_programming_language category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] Cilk has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

Cilk has been cited as an influence by Cilk Plus[21], a programming language[22], founded in 2010[23] and Cilk++[24], a parallel programming language[25], founded in 2008[26].

FAQs

Who did Cilk influence?

Cilk has been cited as an influence by Cilk Plus[21] and Cilk++[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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