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 ...

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

The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing has issued theircall for technical papers. Now in its 20th year, the Symposium presents the latest research on ...

There is always the promise of using more computing power for a single task. Your computer has multiple CPUs now, surely. Your video card has even more. Your computer is probably networked to a slew ...

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 ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

Is it better to be as accurate as possible in machine learning, however long it takes, or pretty darned accurate in a really short amount of time? For DeepMind researchers Peter Buchlovsky and ...