BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.

Desktops and servers are being transformed by virtualization and multi-core CPUs, but that effect is a bit harder to see in security. Multi-core CPUs especially hold the possibility of completely ...

FlightAware’s business is soaring. In the year since its launch, the company that tracks private and commercial air traffic in the United States has been serving up about half a million requests a day ...

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a server that uses quad-core processors. After all, he figured, more cores means a more-powerful machine ...

A new technical paper titled “Balancing Power and Performance With Task Dependencies in Multi-Core Systems” was published by researchers at TU Dresden. “The increasing use of FPGAs necessitates energy ...

As Intel and AMD continue to increase processing power by expanding out cores per processor, how will this affect VMware licensing? Good question. Effective November 1st of 2006, VMware redefined and ...

ITTIA has ported its DB SQL embedded relational database to take advantage of multicore systems. In order for manufacturers of embedded devices to process and analyze all the data generated on a multi ...

Looking to get the most out of multi-core processors, a European-driven effort to build a framework for Java-based, real-time applications on modern multi-core chips and parallel processor systems is ...

Usually a book’s title will give you a good idea what to expect. Unfortunately, the embedded and multi-core aspects of this title are somewhat general. It does cover some of the benefits of using ...