In genetics, with increasing data sizes and more advanced algorithms for mining complex data, a point is reached where increased computational capacity or alternative solutions becomes unavoidable.

Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

For Microsoft and Intel, the computing universe is going parallel. Representatives from the companies met with reporters Tuesday morning to talk about a new parallel computing initiative involving the ...

What is a grid? It’s more difficult to answer this question today than it was in 2002, because commercialization of the technology has resulted in many products and implementations that are labeled ...

Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...

Stanford University and a consortium of technology companies are announcing a joint effort to build a Pervasive Parallelism Lab. The initiative pools the efforts of many Stanford computer scientists ...

NASA and Boeing launch grid systems to share resources, contain costs. Piyush Mehrotra isn’t exaggerating when he says the data collected and maintained by his organization’s computing systems spans ...

A key challenge in parallel adaptive Cartesian grid generation is significant computational load imbalance during k‑d tree ...

There is always the promise of using more computing power for a single task. Your computer has multiple CPUs now, surely. Your video card has even more. Your computer is probably networked to a slew ...

(1) May refer to a cloud computing service that provides a complete server infrastructure but not applications. See cloud computing. (2) A parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are ...