News tagged with parallel processing

Researcher tests performance of diverse HPC architectures

Surveying the wide range of parallel system architectures offered in the supercomputer market, an Ohio State University researcher recently sought to establish some side-by-side performance comparisons.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Workforce from the digital cloud

By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is used when non-automated tasks are ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform

(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Fujitsu develops distributed and parallel complex event processing technology that rapidly adjusts big data load fluctua

Fujitsu today announced that, in an industry first, they have developed complex event processing technology designed for use with cloud technology that employs distributed and parallel processing. This enables ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM pursues chips that behave like brains

Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it's only a narrow mimicry of what ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 18

Singapore's first satellite in the pink of health

Scientists, researchers and students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have established contact with X-SAT, Singapore's first micro-satellite in space, and obtained a healthy communication link which ascertains ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu accelerates verification of Java software through parallel processing

Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of technology enabling high-speed exhaustive verification of Java software using parallel processing. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Nvidia chip team gets 25 million dollars from US military

Nvidia on Monday said it is leading a team awarded 25 million dollars by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a chip that leaves today's super computers in the dust.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 14

The power of graphics processing units may threaten the world’s password security system

It’s been called revolutionary - technology that lends supercomputer-level power to any desktop. What’s more, this new capability comes in the form of a readily available piece of hardware, a graphics processing unit (GPU) ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Computing, Sudoku-style

When Alexey Radul began graduate work at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003, he was interested in natural-language processing -- designing software that could understand ordinary ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Lessons from the Brain: Toward an Intelligent Molecular Computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Information processing circuits in digital computers are static. In our brains, information processing circuits—neurons—evolve continuously to solve complex problems. Now, an international ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (38) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Stanford parallel programming course available online for free

Through a new course posted online for free, the Stanford School of Engineering and NVIDIA Corp. will give a big boost to programmers who want to take advantage of the substantial processing power of the graphics processing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 10

Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1