Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Researchers at two U.S. universities have answered the age-old question of how to use burnt pancakes and E. coli to create more-efficient sorting algorithms. The researchers’ study was conducted by ...

Teradata is a connected multicloud data platform with a highly scalable relational database management system suitable for data warehousing purposes. The Teradata system is based on various symmetric ...

Those UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) AppleSeed computer guys are at it again. According to their online info, they’re up to a cluster of 25 Macs, including G4’s, and have even published ...

Chip vendor Nvidia plans to use its Cuda parallel computing architecture in all its GPUs (graphics processing units), including its Tegra system-on-a-chip for mobile devices. Chip vendor Nvidia plans ...

The AppleSeed Web site — which looks at a parallel Mac cluster for numerically intensive computing and should be of interest to those interested in a “plug and play parallel computer” — has been ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) plans to implement its digital and parallel processing of all mining-related applications across all regions next year ...