BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.

Desktops and servers are being transformed by virtualization and multi-core CPUs, but that effect is a bit harder to see in security. Multi-core CPUs especially hold the possibility of completely ...

A new technical paper titled “Balancing Power and Performance With Task Dependencies in Multi-Core Systems” was published by researchers at TU Dresden. “The increasing use of FPGAs necessitates energy ...

ITTIA has ported its DB SQL embedded relational database to take advantage of multicore systems. In order for manufacturers of embedded devices to process and analyze all the data generated on a multi ...

[Deni’s note: I asked Jim Bagley, senior analyst with Storage Strategies NOW to write this blog on parellelization of applications.] During one week in late July, a team at Purdue University built one ...

As Intel and AMD continue to increase processing power by expanding out cores per processor, how will this affect VMware licensing? Good question. Effective November 1st of 2006, VMware redefined and ...

Looking to get the most out of multi-core processors, a European-driven effort to build a framework for Java-based, real-time applications on modern multi-core chips and parallel processor systems is ...

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a server that uses quad-core processors. After all, he figured, more cores means a more-powerful machine ...

Earlier this month Sun made another multi-core related announcement, and soon we should be seeing AMD’s quad-core Opteron. All this got me thinking about the whole multiple cores on a single piece of ...

For many of today’s embedded applications, compute requirements demand multiple cores (compute units). These applications also run various types of workloads. A ...

From a Core Banking solution (CBS) with modules for different business lines comprising of deposits, lending, payments, trade which was integrated in the late 1990s through 2000s, focus has shifted to ...