Rightware Oy, a 2009 startup that has developed a licensable 3-D graphical user interface called Kanzi, has announced the availability of Basemark CL, a benchmarking system for OpenCL-related software and hardware. View the full article HERE .

ATEME, a world leader in video compression solutions for the broadcast and broadband market, and Bull, the premier European provider of High Performance Computing systems, announce

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InformationWeek Reports ( www.reports.informationweek.com ), a service provider for peer-based IT research and analysis, announced the release of its latest ...

A computer made entirely of biological molecules -- named a "biological computer" -- has been developed by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique to take advantage of the "fused architecture" emerging on multicore CPUs that puts central processing units and graphics processing units on the same chip. The technology, called CPU-assisted general purpose computation on graphics processor units (CPU-assisted GPGPU) uses software compiled to leverage the architecture to ...

Microsoft has opened its C AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units).

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

Scientists have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips.

Microsoft has published the specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism), its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. When Microsoft first announced C++ AMP in June last year, it said that it wanted to make the AMP specification open to all. AMP has been developed by Microsoft with input from AMD and NVIDIA. Microsoft's implementation allows AMP programs to use ...

Web pages on the alternet are accessed by typing the alt:// prefix or "protocol". This loads sites such as alt://website.com from public facing alt-DNS. Browser extensions for the four most popular browsers are in active development. (PRWeb February 07, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/parallel-internet/the-alternet/prweb9161844.htm

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