• Microsoft sets app dev investment priorities

  Microsoft's to-do list in the software development space includes continued or new investments in multiple areas, including cloud computing, the Web, parallel computing, devices, and agile and distributed development, a company executive said in a blog entry on Tuesday.

  By Paul Krill | 24 February, 2010 09:33

  Tags: cloud computing, Microsoft, parallel computing, software development, Windows 7

• Microsoft acquisition adds to parallel computing focus

  Microsoft has purchased assets in a company that specializes in parallel computing, a function used mainly in supercomputing that Microsoft aims to develop for a broader audience, the company said Tuesday.

  By Owen Fletcher | 23 September, 2009 17:47

  Tags: Interactive Supercomputing, Microsoft, parallel computing, supercomputing

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  Intel acquires software company RapidMind

  Intel has acquired software company RapidMind in an effort to push development of programs that can exploit the power of Intel's multicore processors, the company said Friday.

  By Agam Shah | 24 August, 2009 06:29

  Tags: Intel, mergers & acquistions, parallel computing, RapidMind

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  Intel pushing parallelism to developers

  Intel on Friday said it is inviting programmers to develop programs that can take advantage of the parallel computing capabilities on its future multicore processors.

  By Agam Shah | 15 December, 2008 08:08

  Tags: parallel computing

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  EmTech 08: Mundie's bets are on 'first life'

  The dramatic increase in compute power unleashed by multicore processors will enable applications that blend virtual representations of the real world with information that meets users' contextual needs, Microsoft's top researcher said at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday.

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 26 September, 2008 09:16

  Tags: parallel computing

Whitepapers about parallel computing

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  Watson – A System Designed for Answers: The future of workload optimized systems design

  Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.