Back before the rise of client-server computing, one of the holy grails of computer science was distributed massively parallel computing. Under this architecture, multiple types of computers — ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing Oy today revealed seemingly outlandish plans to transform the chip industry with a new Parallel Processing Unit that it says can boost the performance of any central ...

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading analytics solutions company, announced Teradata Everywhere™, an industry first that brings the world’s most powerful massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic ...

For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. But then workloads and data began shifting to the ...

The remarkable and rapid uptake of ChatGPT and similar large language model (LLM)-based AIs may be driving the biggest increase in demand for computing power since the advent of the internet. The ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

In January we gave NVIDIA’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) software tools that allows C programmers to use multiple high-performance GPU cards to perform massively parallel computations ...