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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month Sun made another multi-core related announcement, and soon we should be seeing AMD’s quad-core Opteron. All this got me thinking about the whole multiple cores on a single piece of ...

Avionics used to be the realm of reliable but incremental upgrades — new radar here, a better flight management system there. Today, the real leap is happening inside the silicon: ever‑faster ...

Real-time scheduling of parallel tasks in multiprocessor systems is a critical field that underpins the reliability and efficiency of modern computing in applications ranging from embedded systems to ...

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 ...

Eningen/Germany, November 15th, 2006: Trinigy, a market leading company in the sector of 3D game engines, today announced their cooperation with Intel regarding the official launch of the new Core 2 ...

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 ...