Microsoft has purchased assets in a company that specializes in parallel computing, a function used mainly in supercomputing that Microsoft aims to develop for a broader audience, the company said ...

Back in 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the semiconductor industry could double the number of transistors on a chip every 12 months (he later amended it to 24 months) for about the ...

In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems. Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for ...

Until the late 1990s, the concept of a 3D accelerator card was something generally associated with high-end workstations. Video games and kin would run happily on the CPU in one’s desktop system, with ...

A global collective of researchers has published a paper detailing a new parallel-computing approach that is able to solve combinatorial problems. The report indicates the solution is scalable, ...

The age of chips connected via beams of light is upon us, according to Charles Wuischpard, chief executive of Silicon Valley startup Ayar Labs, which has received $35 million in new funding, bringing ...

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics is proud to present the twenty-first Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. This series of conferences has played a key role in ...

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ("JAIST"; Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture ; President: Minoru Terano) and Dell Technologies Co., Ltd. (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture ; President: ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...