David May is chief technical officer of fabless-semiconductor start-up XMOS, based in Bristol, England. Long an advocate of multicore, parallel computing, he was an early recruit to INMOS in 1978, ...

Parallel computing for differential equations has emerged as a critical field in computational science, enabling the efficient simulation of complex physical systems governed by ordinary and partial ...

In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports.

Last week, Intel and Microsoft joined forces to further the development of software to run on multicore architectures. The two companies announced that they have funded Universal Parallel Computing ...

For example, an engineer may develop a real-time embedded control system at the same time as its human-machine interface. Maybe the system also has a computation-intensive task such as high-speed ...

Parallel programming exploits the capabilities of multicore systems by dividing computational tasks into concurrently executed subtasks. This approach is fundamental to maximising performance and ...

Figure 1. Ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip - "Liuxing-I". High-detail view of an ultra-high parallelism optical computing integrated chip – “Liuxing-I”, showcasing the packaged ...

As high-performance computing (HPC) becomes more important in helping financial services companies deal with a rising tsunami of data, there’s growing angst on Wall Street about a dearth of skilled ...

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When trying to make a purchase with a shopping app, we may quickly browse the recommendation list while admitting that the machine does know about us -- at least, it is learning to do so. As an ...