BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.

In a huge software project for an embedded application, a function behaved in a strange fashion. A variable, which must not be changed while the function is executed, was changed. The function itself ...

Mercury Systems, Inc. on Jan. 20 unveiled its EnsembleSeries ™ CIOE-1390 module for helicopters and urban air mobility vehicles. The new COM Express ®-based processor modules, which the company ...

Updating your source code for speed on multithreaded systems is no longer an option. To stay competitive, solution providers must rewrite or optimize for today's parallel systems. Whether you're ...

Desktops and servers are being transformed by virtualization and multi-core CPUs, but that effect is a bit harder to see in security. Multi-core CPUs especially hold the possibility of completely ...

A new technical paper titled “Balancing Power and Performance With Task Dependencies in Multi-Core Systems” was published by researchers at TU Dresden. “The increasing use of FPGAs necessitates energy ...

FlightAware’s business is soaring. In the year since its launch, the company that tracks private and commercial air traffic in the United States has been serving up about half a million requests a day ...

Usually a book’s title will give you a good idea what to expect. Unfortunately, the embedded and multi-core aspects of this title are somewhat general. It does cover some of the benefits of using ...

Looking to get the most out of multi-core processors, a European-driven effort to build a framework for Java-based, real-time applications on modern multi-core chips and parallel processor systems is ...

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a server that uses quad-core processors. After all, he figured, more cores means a more-powerful machine ...