Researchers at two U.S. universities have answered the age-old question of how to use burnt pancakes and E. coli to create more-efficient sorting algorithms. The researchers’ study was conducted by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Total quality management (TQM), is being embraced by companies seeking global competitiveness through rapid, cost effective and precise ...

Micron’s Automata Processor provides a parallel pattern recognition system that supports regular expressions. When looking for the best, it is often useful to examine the new or unusual to see if it ...

The U.S. Postal Service is rolling out two types of super-fast automated package sorting machines to improve processing time.

Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing. But the next release of Windows client and server also are going ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Many hands make light work, or so they say. So do many cores, many threads and many data points when addressed by a single computing instruction. Parallel programming – writing code that breaks down ...

For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, ...