A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as the systems become widespread in the industry. Computers should not ...

Though the use of multiple processors has grown in recent years, multiprocessor computers are more than 30 years old. Since this time, their capabilities have evolved as much as their implementation.

A multiprocessor computer system consisting of several rack-mounted or modularized CPU boards that use fault tolerant components and share disk storage. SMP versions share a common memory pool.

August 29nd 2005 – Raleigh, NC and Toulon, France –Thales computers activities, market leader in providing integrated PowerPC and Pentium based VME COTS embedded systems and solutions to OEMs and ...

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Playing chess, predicting the weather and simulating nuclear explosions are highly CPU-intensive applications. IBM’s latest Deep Blue chess master, for example, is a 32-node IBM RS/6000 SP ...

Network-on-Chip (NoC) has been recognized as a promising architecture to accommodate tens, hundreds or even thousand of cores. As a result, a number of NoC architectures have been and are being ...

The Open Source Development Lab, devoted to bringing high-end features to Linux, hires Stuart F. Cohen, charged with boosting corporate sponsorship and involvement. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...