Intel recently announced a 6-processor chip in its Xeon family and noted designers can link as many as 16 devices to put 96 processors in a design. That sounds rather cool until you start to wonder ...

Researchers present a new chip design they call Swarm, which should make parallel programs not only much more efficient but easier to write, too. Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the ...

A new evaluation of popular parallel programming languages finds that the C++ library provides the best combination of usability and performance Multicore programming is a tricky problem. Developers ...