Several factors, including the lack of training in parallel programming and support from independent software vendors, are major obstacles keeping general-purpose...ZDNet Asia From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2011
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded...ZDNet From ACM News | December 29, 2010
China's National University of Defense Technology's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has taken the top ranking from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer...ZDNet UK From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2010
The EC is funding a project to develop a grid of up to six "tier 0" high-performance computing systems and is aiming for a combined computing power in the multi...ZDNet UK From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2010
An international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a molecular circuit that can evolve continuously to solve complex...ZDNet From ACM News | April 26, 2010
The issue of security is holding back its full potential of cloud computing. This was the gist of the keynote message presented Tuesday (March 2) by Art Coviello...ZDNet Asia From ACM News | March 3, 2010
The future of supercomputing holds several significant software challenges, writes Numerical Algorithms Group's Andrew Jones. The first challenge is the rapidly...ZDNet K From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2009
A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect Internet data and communications every day, spoke recently about the state...ZDNet Asia From ACM News | April 23, 2009