Has your system's database become enormous? Are you having to add more users to the system than you anticipated? Is your application beginning to perform like a subcompact towing a trailer uphill?

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

[Housekeeping]: There are two sets of posts going out in this series – the series here and the series in our guest blog. Today’s guest post is from David Stewart at CriticalBlue about multicore ...

As manufacturing processes transition to more advanced technologies at 90nm and below, design signoff requirements become increasingly more rigorous and time-consuming. With each step to more advanced ...

Driving individual processor performance to the limit in a given implementation technology is never easy or efficient. Faster clocks, deeper pipelines and bigger caches carry silicon area and power ...

In this video from EuroPython 2019, Pierre Glaser from INRIA presents: Parallel computing in Python: Current state and recent advances. Modern hardware is multi-core. It is crucial for Python to ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming techniques underpin many of today’s most demanding computational tasks, from complex scientific simulations to data-intensive analytics. This ...

Multiple parallel processing strategies, involving over a dozen retinal ganglion cell types, can be found in the retina. Each ganglion cell type tiles the retina to provide a complete representation ...