Intel director James Reinders explains the difference between task and data parallelism, and how there is a way around the limits imposed by Amdahl's Law... I'm James Reinders, and I'm going to cover ...

Rising development costs motivate companies to design fewer systems-on-chip, but to make each one they do design more flexible and programmable. Doing so makes it possible to reuse designs to take ...

A key reason the enormous performance potential offered by IBM's cell processor has yet to be realized with any substantive application is that programmers are currently caught between rocks and hard ...