Back before the rise of client-server computing, one of the holy grails of computer science was distributed massively parallel computing. Under this architecture, multiple types of computers — ...

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading analytics solutions company, announced Teradata Everywhere™, an industry first that brings the world’s most powerful massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing Oy today revealed seemingly outlandish plans to transform the chip industry with a new Parallel Processing Unit that it says can boost the performance of any central ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

In my previous article, I discussed the role of data management innovation in improving data center efficiency. I concluded with words of caution and optimism regarding the growing use of larger, ...

In January we gave NVIDIA’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) software tools that allows C programmers to use multiple high-performance GPU cards to perform massively parallel computations ...