Lately, vectorization, an optimization technique synonymous with early vector supercomputers like the Cray-1 (1975), has reappeared with even greater importance than before. Exploiting the performance ...

Ever since it became clear that AMD's Carrizo would be a mobile update with a focus on energy efficiency as opposed to raw performance, enthusiasts and investors have been hungry for details about the ...

A new multithreading architecture called MIPS MT ASE (multithreading architecture extensions) comes by way of MIPS Technologies. It provides coarse-grain and fine-grain multithreading support on a ...

A new processing technique could double the speed of existing computer performance while also improving efficiency during the heaviest of workloads, according to a new study. The software algorithm, ...

The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this ...

Forward-looking: New research details a process that allows a CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator to work seamlessly in parallel on separate tasks. The pioneering breakthrough could provide blazing-fast, ...

The development team of the open source multimedia framework 'FFmpeg' has reported the completion of multithreading of the command line tool. The development team describes the process as 'the most ...

The recent Leibson’s Law blog entries on concurrency and multithreading are getting so much comment that I wanted to make sure that those interested don’t miss Ed Lee’s Microsoft lecture on “Making ...