Back before the rise of client-server computing, one of the holy grails of computer science was distributed massively parallel computing. Under this architecture, multiple types of computers — ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing Oy today revealed seemingly outlandish plans to transform the chip industry with a new Parallel Processing Unit that it says can boost the performance of any central ...

Sybase IQ will soon be run on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing ...

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading analytics solutions company, announced Teradata Everywhere™, an industry first that brings the world’s most powerful massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic ...

If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively ...

The term supercomputer does get tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? What does a computer need to do to be ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an optical computing framework that performs large-scale nonlinear computations using linear materials. Reported in ...