For decades, Intel has been enabling insight and discovery through its technologies and contributions to parallel computing and High Performance Computing (HPC). Central to the company’s most recent ...

For decades, parallel computing–the tricky job of dividing programming tasks among a number of processors–has been the province of academics who write programs for supercomputers.

Created in 2008, KALRAY is a company that designs and markets an entirely new generation of massively parallel processors, simultaneously giving high performance and low consumption for the ...

Micron has produced an accelerator capable of performing high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Micron calls it the Automata Processor (AP). It leverages ...

Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that ...

Quentin Stout and Christiane Jablonowski from the University of Michigan gave a nice introduction to parallel computing on Sunday. They covered everything from architecture to APIs to the politics ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Peking University in China has designed a revolutionary ‘all-optical’ chip that uses light to synchronize the speed of processors ...