Gartner sounded a warning on Wednesday about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor can handle. In a research note, the analysts argued ...

Popular for offering minimally invasive and submicron resolution, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become an accepted diagnostic medical imaging technique for several applications including ...

Following Moore's Law has led the computing industry to ever-increasing clock speeds, until now. The performance increases that come with faster clocks are reaching a plateau as logic gets closer to ...

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Software developers aiming to tweak their applications for multicore microprocessors have gained a boost from Advanced Micro Devices at a Sunnyvale, California developer center packed with computers ...

As multicore processing architectures grow in popularity, suppliers are rolling out solutions to help engineers program the new breed of devices. PolyCore Software is offering a new version of its ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in servers equipped with quad-core processors. After all, he figured, having more cores means a more ...

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 ...

Don't blink. As embedded hardware continues its rush toward more cores, giant clusters, video cell phones, and multimedia players, software developers turn to more third-party software and improved ...