Many movies have explored the great things humans could do if only they had access to 100 percent of the brain’s cognitive powers. While the myth persists that humans only use 10 percent of their ...

Rising development costs motivate companies to design fewer systems-on-chip, but to make each one they do design more flexible and programmable. Doing so makes it possible to reuse designs to take ...

Transactional memory systems represent a significant advancement in concurrent programming by allowing grouped sequences of operations to execute atomically. This paradigm reduces the complexity ...

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab, PNNL, and Intel are working hard to make sure that computational chemists are prepared to compute efficiently on next-generation exascale machines. Recently, ...

Sun Microsystems has only just started delivering its UltraSparc III processor, but already the company is touting the split-personality of its upcoming UltraSparc V chip. The UltraSparc V will be ...

The company has only just started delivering its UltraSparc III processor, but already it has begun touting the split-personality features of its upcoming UltraSparc V chip. Stephen Shankland worked ...