When Calvin computer science professor Joel Adams launched Calvin’s first parallel computing course in the late 90s, the field was “an esoteric elective kind of thing.” Supercomputers, the main ...

The processor, memory and video card are the most important components when determining performance inside a computer. Gaining an understanding of what each specification means, and what each part ...

Microsoft and Intel plan to establish two centers, at the University of California and the University of Illinois, to study parallel computing and its applications.

The large-scale Pace processor, which has more than 16,000 photonic components, can solve difficult computing tasks, demonstrating the feasibility of the system for real world applications.

As computers get more and more powerful, Moore's Law suggests they may reach infinite computing speed in about 75 years--but that's impossible ...