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 — ...

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 ...

A new technical paper titled “Computing high-degree polynomial gradients in memory” was published by researchers at UCSB, HP Labs, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, and RWTH Aachen University.

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, ...

The open source, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical database will take on the likes of ClickHouse, MariaDB, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot, and hyperscaler services such as Google BigQuery, ...

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware. It was easy to program applications in the days when one chip, one ...