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A Prediction Model for Software Performance in Symmetric <endeca_term>Multiprocessing</endeca_term> Environments

A Prediction Model for Software Performance in Symmetric Multiprocessing Environments

The broad introduction of multi-core processors made Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) environments mainstream. The additional cores can significantly increase software performance. However... Read more

18 June, 2010
Boosting Parallel Applications Performance on Applying DIM Technique in a <endeca_term>Multiprocessing</endeca_term> Environment

Boosting Parallel Applications Performance on Applying DIM Technique in a Multiprocessing Environment

...are rapidly taking over both general-purpose and embedded processor domains. Current multiprocessing systems are composed either of many homogeneous and simple cores or of... Read more

14 February, 2011
Clustered <endeca_term>Multiprocessing</endeca_term>: Changing the Rules of the Performance Game

Clustered Multiprocessing: Changing the Rules of the Performance Game

Because improvements in practical computer power lag far behind these exponential hardware improvements, the key to... Read more

20 January, 2011
Asymmetric <endeca_term>Multiprocessing</endeca_term> for Simultaneous Multithreading Processors

Asymmetric Multiprocessing for Simultaneous Multithreading Processors

Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) has become common in commercially available processors with hardware support for dual... Read more

1 January, 2011
A Separation Logic for Refining Concurrent Objects

A Separation Logic for Refining Concurrent Objects

Fine-grained concurrent data structures are crucial for gaining performance from multiprocessing, but their design is a subtle art. Recent literature has made large... Read more

15 July, 2010

ARM brews Big.Little tech for less greedy smartphones

...s ARM-based Kal-El processor, or to Qualcomm's asynchronous symmetric multiprocessing (aSMP) technology that has made it into its ARM-based Snapdragon chips... Read more

20 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Nvidia powers down Kal-El with fifth core

...encoding.The company calls its quintet structure of cores a 'Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing' (SMP) technology. The fifth core is based on the same ARM Cortex... Read more

21 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

RIM launches BlackBerry PlayBook tablet

...MacOS, and is a microkernel OS with support for symmetric and distributed multiprocessing. QNX's history as a real-time operating system gives the PlayBook... Read more

27 September, 2010 by Simon Bisson
NoScript Anywhere for Firefox Mobile 3.0a9

NoScript Anywhere for Firefox Mobile 3.0a9

...are being turned upside down in order to match Mozilla's Electrolysis multiprocessing architecture and implement a porting for Firefox Mobile, available on Android and... Read more

17 October, 2011
Ferro Backup System 3.5.4

Ferro Backup System 3.5.4

...to techniques used such as differential backup, compression at desktop level, symmetric multiprocessing, Ferro Backup System enables you, in a very short time, to make... Read more

16 August, 2011

BlackBerry PlayBook: Cheat Sheet

...has made a big song and dance about the PlayBook's symmetric multiprocessing ability - which allows apps to run concurrently in the background for full... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
Optimizing Single Instance Oracle Databases on Oracle's T-Series Servers

Optimizing Single Instance Oracle Databases on Oracle's T-Series Servers

...series servers are based on Oracle's CMT processors which combine chip multiprocessing (CMP) and hardware multithreading (MT) with an efficient instruction pipeline to enable... Read more

1 September, 2010
HTPCP: GNSS-R Multi-Channel Cross-Correlation Waveforms Post-Processing Solution for GOLD-RTR Instrument

HTPCP: GNSS-R Multi-Channel Cross-Correlation Waveforms Post-Processing Solution for GOLD-RTR Instrument

...last years, several embedded solutions for parallel processing are ready available: Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), Network-On-Chip (NOC Read more

1 September, 2010

Compaq abandons Unisys servers

...cancelling a deal to sell the powerful Unisys computers. The Unisys "Cellular Multiprocessing" (CMP) server, which can house as many as 32 Intel processors, is... Read more

1 May, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

What's the best way to increase processing power?

...a dual processor motherboard as well as an operating system that supports multiprocessing. A computer with two 3.0 GHz processors may not be as... Read more

2 August, 2006 by Deb Shinder

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