Some applications are so inherently complicated that it is difficult to dig through the many layers of connected algorithms to expose the parts of the code ripe for optimization. This makes them a ...

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Greenplum. Internet-scale data collecting, swarms of sensors outputs, and content clouds from the mobile device ...

As hardware designers turn toward multicore processors to improve computing power, software programmers must find new programming strategies that harness the power of parallel computing. One technique ...

In part one of this article, we show how video applications present opportunities for multiple forms of parallelism. We then review the hardware and software approaches for exploiting these ...

According to several recent market studies, roughly 750 million cellular handsets were shipped in 2006. This quantity is likely to increase to more than one billion handsets by 2011. These numbers are ...