So I was trying to have a quiet hangover and mix with the good and the great of the industry the other morning at yet another technical meeting. I think I would have been quiet happy to thumb through ...

Parallel processing is set to go mainstream on chips designed for the 90nm node. Both Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys are rolling support into their place-and-route tools for techniques to split ...

Parallel processing is an idea that will be familiar to most readers. Few of you will not be reading this on a device with only one processor core, and quite a few of you will have experimented with ...

About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. (For more on the concept, visit this course at the ...

Sony has been hit with yet another patent infringement lawsuit. This one targets the Cell processor, the brains of the PlayStation 3. A company that claims to be located in Newport Beach, CA, Parallel ...

Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces between three or more atoms bind them together, even as they are excited to ...

Micron’s Automata Processor performs regular expression matching using a parallel array of state transition elements. The ANML compiler and development tools are now available. Tools for developing ...

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 ...