Both the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor continue to increase in performance as each generation is developed. To gain maximum performance from these architectures, it is ...

Many high-performance DSP and general-purpose processors are equipped with SIMD (single-instruction, multiple data) hardware and instructions. SIMD enables processors to execute a single instruction ...

In High Performance Computing applications, developers always desire to get the most out of the underlying hardware. As the capabilities of the hardware continue to expand, it is important that ...

Is low-level programming a sin or a virtue? It depends. When programming for using vector processing on a modern processor, ideally I’d write some code in my favorite language and it would run as fast ...

Virtualisation hardware is for security – allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single core with no possibility of data interaction. A banking application, for example, can safely run at the ...

LONDON — ARC International plc has created a set of 104 128-bit wide instructions that can be applied to a multimedia hardware subsystem as an optional extra to ARC700 configurable processors. The ...

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UPPSALA, Sweden, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, today announces initial support for the draft RISC-V P ...

Have you been having trouble playing Resident Evil 7? I know a lot of people have been physically unable to get the game to work due to the system requirements, as the game’s code required the use of ...

SIMD processors can manipulate large amounts of data in a highly efficient manner, enabling implementation of operations in software that conventional digital signal processors (DSPs) find cumbersome.