computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving architectural efficiency and reducing power consumption. Multi-core ...

The widespread adoption of multi-core hardware is in many cases actually slowing down computing. A typical scenario: A company has a data-intensive software application and wants to make this ...

AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.

Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before the rush to multi-core CPUs, computer designers sometimes put two, four or more single-core CPUs into a system.

Intel CTO Justin Rattner highlighted the accelerating impact of multi- and many-core computing, expanding beyond HPC with developers solving a wide range of everyday computing problems on both ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the ... like the AMD Opteron and Intel Pentium D that we got multi-core processors. If things had gone just slightly differently with ...

But also because the momentum towards massively multi-core computing now looks unstoppable. It was as recently as April 2005 that Intel wheeled out the world's first dual-core desktop processor ...

RAF FAIRFORD, England—BAE Systems is to flight-test a Eurofighter Typhoon later this year equipped with multi-core computer processors as part of ongoing efforts to redesign the fighter’s ...

Last year Microsoft hired Dan Reed, a supercomputing guru from the University of Illinois, to be director of scalable and multi-core computing. Reporting to Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid ...