Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

Before a chip design is turned from a hardware design language (HDL) like VHDL or Verilog into physical hardware, testing and validating the design is an essential step. Yet simulating a HDL design is ...

Victor Eijkhout: I see several problems with the state of parallel programming. For starters, we have too many different programming models, such as threading, message passing, and SIMD or SIMT ...

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) and the parallel hardware necessary to exploit their full potential have promising features for robotic application. “Animal brains still outperform even ...

AI and machine-learning techniques have become a major focus of everything from cloud computing services to cell phone manufacturers. Unfortunately, our existing processors are a bad match for the ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

This $50,000 Apple Silicon cluster features a quartet of Mac Studios with 2TB unified memory. Hitting 3x speed using RDMA, to ...

Parallel development is an essential technique for boosting the productivity of big software development teams that must make numerous changes to a large source-code base. To employ that technique, ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and more, embedded systems, so-called for their habitat inside other systems, have been flushed out of hiding and into the hands of billions of ...

Parallelism used to be the domain of supercomputers working on weather simulations or plutonium decay. It is now part of the architecture of most SoCs. But just how efficient, effective and widespread ...