Microsoft execs haven't been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they were a year or two ago, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening in this space. Late last month, Microsoft made ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

A new study by Botond Szabo (Bocconi Department of Decision Sciences) lays the cornerstone for more accurate, reliable, and interpretable distributed computing methods. In the world of big data, when ...

MPI (Message Passing Interface) is the de facto standard distributed communications framework for scientific and commercial parallel distributed computing. The Intel MPI implementation is a core ...

Microsoft’s S. Somasegar, SVP of the Microsoft Developer Division, posted this week about some of the software development trends in which Microsoft is, or will be, investing. On Somasegar’s list is ...

The enormous growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling a growing demand for high-efficiency computing to perform real-time analysis on massive amounts of data. In ...