IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, is collaborating with European Union (EU) partners on the ACOTES project, an EU funded initiative aiming to maximize the potential of parallel computing in chips, while ...

A European group of high technology companies and research groups, in an ACOTES Project collaboration, will research and implement the advantages of massive parallel processing for consumer devices. A ...

This week Intel announced the beta release of a new application for Facebook that lets users donate their unused cycles to further research through computing tasks. Think Seti@Home for the the social ...

Introduction to parallel computing for scientists and engineers. Shared memory parallel architectures and programming, distributed memory, message-passing data-parallel architectures, and programming.

Yesterday, in a teleconference, Intel and Microsoft announced that they will start to fund serious efforts to make parallel computing mainstream. The companies are injecting $20 million into ...

Microsoft has purchased the assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a desktop parallel-computing vendor, according to a blog post on the Windows Server Division Weblog. The move fits in with ...

It's been a while since the Redmondians have talked up "Dryad," Microsoft's answer to Google's MapReduce and Apache's Hadoop. (I think the last time Dryad got any coverage outside the research ...

The University of Washington has become the first university to join a new academic initiative launched by IBM and Google, according to information released last week by IBM. The goal of the ...

Expanding on its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft is launching on Wednesday TC Labs, a resource for developers to access early releases of Technical Computing software. The company is ...