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Joel Hruska - Fri, Jul 12, 2013
Just yesterday, we addressed the dubious claim that Intel's Clover Trail+ low power mobile processors had somehow seized a massive lead over ARM's products and we noted some of the suspicious discrepancies in the popular AnTuTu benchmark...
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Rob Williams - Mon, Dec 03, 2012
Want to scare the life out of a programmer friend? Just utter the words "multi-threading" into their ear - it works every time! Alright - that's a bit of an exaggeration, but writing multi-threaded code is one of the biggest...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Mar 22, 2010
A key Microsoft kernel architect, David Probert, has come out with a surprising statement regarding Windows' ability to harness multiple cores. While Windows has taken advantage of multicore technology for over a decade, Probert notes that users rarely see the performance that they should...
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Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jun 23, 2009
PGI and NVIDIA Team To Deliver CUDA Fortran CompilerFortran support for NVIDIA CUDA GPUs to be incorporated into a new version of the PGI Fortran compiler Hamburg, Germany, June 23, 2009 - The Portland Group , a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and a leading supplier of compilers...
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Chad Weirick - Wed, Jun 06, 2007
Whether AMD or Intel is on top of the CPU world, there's one CPU related area in which Intel has historically been very successful: Compilers. With today's press release, it seems that Intel is taking their current focus on multi-threading even further: "Intel Corporation today announced the availability of two software products that help...
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