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Compaq teams with Corollary for 8-CPU servers
News The pair have agreed to share technology in order to match Corollary's Profusion multiprocessing architecture with Compaq's I/O technology to boost next-generation Intel 'Deschutes' processors and the Slot 2 architecture.
[October 14, 1997, 11:33]
ARM offers low-power mobile chips
News At the same event, the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, competitor MIPS Technologies announced a multiprocessing core aimed at networking applications. MIPS on Monday introduced the M4K core, a multiprocessing core aimed at network applications.
[May 1, 2002, 15:55]
Unisys to expand mainframe line
News The company will announce faster machines in its ClearPath Plus line, which shares much of the same hardware as its ES7000 "cellular multiprocessing" Windows servers. Cellular multiprocessing lets Unisys run its older mainframe operating systems...
[April 22, 2002, 10:53]
Sources: Apple shows off dual-G4 Mac
News During a keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, that was open only to developers, Apple executives Mitch Mandich, Phil Schiller and Jon Rubinstein showed off the symmetrical multiprocessing...
[May 17, 2000, 8:56]
News Roundup: Microsoft ends XP speculation
News Another disappointment for Microsoft came when Compaq confirmed that it has abandoned plans to sell Unisys' high-end Cellular Multiprocessing server systems, which are closely tied to Microsoft 2000 Data Centre.
[May 2, 2001, 15:19]
How IBM plans to change the chip world
News IBM's Power4 is unique in that it can offer multiprocessing from the confines of a single chip. As it refines the techniques used to manufacture the Athlon, AMD sees the potential for single-chip multiprocessing, where two Athlons are placed on the...
[March 15, 2000, 14:19]
ARM aims to put dual-core chips in mobiles
News More and more we are seeing the symmetric multiprocessing approach," said John Rayfield, vice president of technical marketing at ARM last April, when the idea of putting two processors into a mobile phone was emerging.
[October 21, 2003, 10:50]
What's the best way to increase processing power?
News Of course, this presupposes that the machine has a dual processor motherboard as well as an operating system that supports multiprocessing. Multiprocessing vs.parallel processing Whereas multiprocessing usually refers to two or more processors...
[August 2, 2006, 16:40]
HP chip team sets up home at Intel
News Servers, however, are much more complicated beasts and require companies to have expertise in multiprocessing, intricate input-output subsystems and other technology. Instead of spending time and money developing processors or multiprocessing...
[September 14, 2001, 10:49]
Transmeta loses server deal to Intel
News He noted that the Intel chips will allow future Virgo products to offer symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities. Crusoe does not have multiprocessing capabilities, and Transmeta says it has no plans to produce a multiprocessing chipset.
[August 2, 2001, 14:37]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News The software supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). Wind River has released a hypervisor for embedded systems, a key part of its effort to enable multiple operating systems to run on single or multicore...
[June 18, 2009, 12:43]
IBM breeds PowerPC chip from server DNA
News It will also support symmetric multiprocessing, allowing more than one chip to be used inside the same computer, according to the Microprocessor Forum Web site. But it's not likely this new PowerPC will use chip-multiprocessing techniques -- unlike...
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
Photos: Intel's Single-chip Cloud Computer
News Fractal generation is a classic test for multiprocessing, as the mathematics across the image can be run in parallel during each iteration of the function. Here, the SCC is generating fractals in conjunction with an Intel multiprocessing control...
[December 2, 2009, 17:00]
IBM plots next PowerPC chips
News According to ZDNet News sources, Apple demonstrated Mac OS X running on a dual-processor Power Mac prototype at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, to show off the new OS' support for symmetrical multiprocessing.
[May 25, 2000, 14:25]
AMD hammers out plans for the future
News The road map for server chips will mostly follow the desktop road map in terms of speed, but will add capabilities for multiprocessing. A multiprocessing Athlon for servers will come out in the first half; a Duron version will appear in the second...
[November 9, 2001, 13:37]
A Year Ago: AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News These multiprocessing capabilities are a possibility for a forthcoming 64-bit AMD chip code-named Sledgehammer. This creates a multiprocessing desktop PC, with the ability to run several applications simultaneously.
[March 9, 2001, 6:00]
Intel wants to turn the heat down on multi-core chips
News Symmetric multiprocessing chips, such as IBM's Power 4 and presumably chips with core hopping, essentially squeeze two equal processors into a single piece of silicon, so that the chip provides the same computing power as a dual processor server.
[August 20, 2002, 12:44]
Compaq abandons Unisys servers
News The Unisys "Cellular Multiprocessing" (CMP) server, which can house as many as 32 Intel processors, is the cornerstone of Unisys' strategy to have other companies sell its products under their own names.
[May 1, 2001, 8:59]
Streamlining Beowulf Cluster Deployment With NPACI Rocks
White Papers For high-performance parallel-processing applications, Beowulf clusters that comprise industry-standard, two-processor and four processor servers can be a cost-effective alternative to symmetric multiprocessing computer systems and supercomputers.
[May 7, 2005, 3:00]
The Future Data Center - Part 1: Multi-Core Processors
White Papers Some applications inherently cannot exploit multiprocessing facilities and many applications are extremely difficult to partition into parallel processing architectures. Multi-core microprocessors promise substantially improved system performance...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
