News tagged with processing units

New study shows why swine flu virus develops drug resistance

Professor Adrian Mulholland and Dr Christopher Woods from Bristol's School of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Thailand, used graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate the molecular processes that take place when ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AMD's Trinity is out to rattle Intel's Ivy Bridge

(Phys.org) -- AMD has announced Trinity, its second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), which are out to rival Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors. AMD’s Trinity is an update to its ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20 percent

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New software design technique allows programs to run faster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to software development that will allow common computer programs to run up to 20 percent faster and possibly incorporate new security ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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HP Labs find memristors can compute (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at HP Labs, the central research arm of HP, have discovered that a resistor with memory, a “memristor” can also perform logic operations. This means chips storing data may also ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (45) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent

A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the University of Michigan.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chips as mini Internets

Computer chips have stopped getting faster. In order to keep increasing chips’ computational power at the rate to which we’ve grown accustomed, chipmakers are instead giving them additional “cores,” or ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu develops world's fastest processor

(AP) -- Japanese computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday that it has successfully developed the world's fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader.

Electronics / Hardware

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 7

New system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design, more reliable

Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips’ efficiency. But the chips of the future are likely to have ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan computer smashes speed record

A Japanese supercomputer has broken its own record as the world's fastest machine by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, its developers announced.

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 44

New software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of multicore-chip designs

For the last decade or so, computer chip manufacturers have been increasing the speed of their chips by giving them extra processing units, or “cores.” Most major manufacturers now offer chips with ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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'Jaguar' supercomputer gaining speed

Cray Inc. said it has sealed a deal to overhaul the US Department of Energy's "Jaguar" supercomputer, making it faster than any other machine on the planet.

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 89

Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

AMD Fusion APUs plumped, primped, stretched

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has announced some new additions to its Fusion APUs optimized for notebooks, netbooks and PCs. Users will see the immediate difference in battery life and enhanced graphics. So what’s ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report