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.

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 ...

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 ...

[Deni’s note: I asked Jim Bagley, senior analyst with Storage Strategies NOW to write this blog on parellelization of applications.] During one week in late July, a team at Purdue University built one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to apply CAST-32A and A(M)C20-193 guidance for heterogeneous multicore processors. Techniques for measuring timing and interference on heterogeneous multicore processors. How to employ robust ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...