Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories uncovered performance issues during simulations of multi processors; they found that when the number of processor cores on an individual chip is increased, it impairs the performance of complex applications. In a world where the ...

A team of digital luthiers from the Music Technology Group (MTG) within the Audiovisual Institute of the “Pompeu Fabra University” in Barcelona have developed what some say is “the musical instrument of the future”. Their invention, which they named “ReacTable”, ...

Intel Corporation will be unveiling a paper detailing the first ever “many-core” blueprint named “Larrabee.” Larrabee is a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a ”many-core” programming model and performance analysis tool for several applications. Larrabee would be ...