IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, is collaborating with European Union (EU) partners on the ACOTES project, an EU funded initiative aiming to maximize the potential of parallel computing in chips, while ...

A European group of high technology companies and research groups, in an ACOTES Project collaboration, will research and implement the advantages of massive parallel processing for consumer devices.

This week Intel announced the beta release of a new application for Facebook that lets users donate their unused cycles to further research through computing tasks. Think Seti@Home for the the social ...

In short, this family of many-core technologies under development -- codenamed "Tahiti" -- is Microsoft's next-generation platform for concurrent, multicore/many-core computing. Microsoft, like ...

The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working with a number of National Labs on the development of supercomputers with 50x better performance than today's systems. In this special guest feature, ECP ...

Microsoft has a wide variety of ongoing projects in the parallel/distributed computing space, from its Axum concurrent-computing language, to the Parallel FX extenions to the .Net Framework.

Expanding on its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft is launching on Wednesday TC Labs, a resource for developers to access early releases of Technical Computing software. The company is ...

AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy ...

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 ...

A parallel computing project at the University of California at Berkeley. Using nearly a thousand computers donated by Intel, its focus is on developing a multi-level "system of systems" that uses ...