Programming parallel processors isn't easy, especially when the number of processing elements is large. No single technique applies to all situations. But in its Storm-1 architecture, Stream ...

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 ...

NVIDIA’s CUDA is a general purpose parallel computing platform and programming model that accelerates deep learning and other compute-intensive apps by taking advantage of the parallel processing ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductors, or CMOS, are a widely used chip type prominent across most consumer and enterprise ...

Parallel processing is an idea that will be familiar to most readers. Few of you will not be reading this on a device with only one processor core, and quite a few of you will have experimented with ...

Kathleen Hall is correspondent for Computer Weekly. She writes about technology issues in small to medium-sized enterprises, as well as specialising in the retail and services sectors. Previously ...

Electrical and computer engineering is an incredibly broad field that equips students to develop emerging technologies that will help address some of the world’s biggest challenges in energy, health ...

The rapid transformation of data from a tool and by-product of information systems to a critical business asset has seen the role of the data architect propelled upwards in most data-heavy ...