New Atlas

MIT's Swarm chip architecture boosts multi-core CPUs

For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

System enables large speedups — as much as 88-fold — on common parallel-computing algorithms (MIT)

Source: MIT/ CSAIL: Suvinay Subramanian, Mark C. Jeffrey, Maleen Abeydeera, Hyun Ryong Lee, Victor A. Ying, Joel Emer, Daniel Sanchez As is commonly known, the chips in most modern desktop computers ...
Electronic Design

Q&A: A Look Back and Ahead at Parallel Computing

We take a look back at the progress made in parallel computing with James Reinders, Parallel Programming Models Architect at Intel, who also shares his thoughts on how developers can get involved ...
EurekAlert!

Fractal parallel computing, a geometry-inspired productivity booster

When trying to make a purchase with a shopping app, we may quickly browse the recommendation list while admitting that the machine does know about us -- at least, it is learning to do so. As an ...