IBM triples system capacity to support heavier AI and supercomputing data demands New flash enclosure enables larger caches ...

Sybase IQ will soon be run on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing ...

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Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing. But the next release of Windows client and server also are going ...

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 ...

According to several recent market studies, roughly 750 million cellular handsets were shipped in 2006. This quantity is likely to increase to more than one billion handsets by 2011. These numbers are ...

The mammalian retina — the first component of the visual system — not only transduces light signals into neuronal representations, but also acts as a filter that transfers specific aspects of images ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...