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As the economics of data storage push more and more data onto disks, the energy efficiency of data storage is ever more critical. Storage is anti-entropic, so keeping bits organized requires energy. How can we minimize that energy input? Data cooling is the major reason disk drives have...

Intel brings simplified, end-to-end parallelism to Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C developers with Intel Parallel Studio. Leveraging more than 25 years of parallel software and high-performance expertise, Intel provides advanced tools to optimize client applications. Create parallel applications for the desktop and compete in a multicore industry.End-to-end product suite for parallelism:...

Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Post about Science & Technology links for 2009-06-23 – mbgmbg.wordpress.com06/24/2009The tspair package for finding top scoring pair classifiers in R (tags: x46qk ) BioTapestry ( … Signaling...

Texas Instruments is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside the application processor, a setup it calls symmetric multicore processing, will be here as soon as 2011. Such phones, which will be built with multicore ARM -based chips, will...

Joab Jackson (UMBC ‘90) wrote a nice article on UMBC’s Multicore Computational Center for the current issue of UMBC Magazine. From The Power of Parallels : “In July 2007, IBM gave UMBC computer science professors Milton Halem and Yelena...

It's easier than ever to pit Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard head-to-head: They're launching soon, both within a month of each other—and both are basically glorified service packs of the current OS. In way, they're opposites: Windows 7 uses...