The longstanding technology trend of creating ever larger and faster processors started fragmenting several years ago when power-density and high-frequency design needs started becoming impediments.

A clearer understanding of the differences between multithreading on a single coprocessor and utilizing multiple processors is essential to designers of wireless systems. Cell phones were among the ...

The MACh Velocity 66 G4 MPeXLR8 is now shipping from XLR8, the gang that makes Mac upgrade and expansion products. The MACh Velocity 66 G4 MPe — the 66 refers to the bus speed of the beige systems — ...

Novell’s efforts at multiprocessing have been largely unsuccessful so far. NetWare 4 had multiprocessing support, but according to users, it didn’t work very well. The company is planning to launch ...

Early next year, top-echelon power users will find out if two heads are better than one. That’s when Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM, Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others will start to ...

The products create an in-memory cache of the data for these extreme applications and make that data available to applications running on many independent blade computers or other types of systems.

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Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of ...

The computational cluster at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., is set to be the 20th fastest supercomputer in the world. Composed of 1300 off-the-shelf computers, the Computational ...

(1) Using part of main memory to support a low-cost display circuit that does not have its own memory. See shared video memory. (2) The common memory in a symmetric multiprocessing system that is ...