AUSTIN, Texas — With an $11 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and collaborative support from IBM Corp.'s Austin Research Lab, a team of computer architects at the ...

A CPU equipped with a dedicated hardware chip for parallel programs that allows researchers at MIT to calculate a multi-core (many core) CPU 18 times faster than beforeSwarm"Was developed. Researchers ...

In my previous article, Understanding the Microprocessor, I gave a high-level overview of what a microprocessor is and how it functions. I talked about the kinds of tasks it performs and the different ...

With the advent of the tremendous compute density of new processors, it is important to understand if an application can take advantage of multicore. New systems that contain different computing ...

Multi-mode sensor processing – such as that for radar beamforming and for electro- optical (E-O) or infrared (IR) image processing – presents formidable computing problems. It requires extremely high ...