Parallel computing refers to the idea of using multiple computers or processors to solve a problem faster. It's like teamwork, where each computer works on a small piece of the task together, making the overall process quicker and more efficient.
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At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for High Performance Fortran, a programming language used
for parallel computing, and published a library of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.
Biocellion combines advances
in parallel computing in a flexible interface that researchers without a background in parallel programming can use.
Understanding and reacting to visual information in real time like a human is a hard computer science problem, says John Owens, who
studies parallel computing at the University of California, Davis.
The end result, called Adaptable Seismic Data Format (ASDF), leverages the Adaptable I / O System (ADIOS) parallel library and gives Tromp's team a superior file format to record, reproduce, and analyze data on large -
scale parallel computing resources.
Computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available
parallel computing resources from high - performance parallel supercomputers to conventional workstation clusters.
«JRTI is pleased to further extend the Accelerated Computing Initiative with Velocity Micro and VelocityHPC, adding to the full line of high performance, Visual Super Computing workstation and host server platforms accelerated by the
Tesla parallel computing engine from NVIDIA.
Richmond, VA — October 6, 2008 — James River Technical, Inc. (JRTI), and Velocity Micro today announced the immediate availability of a full line of High Performance Computing workstation platforms based on the Tesla
parallel computing engine from NVIDIA.
The final computation required 3 million CPU hours on NERSC's supercomputers,
though parallel computing shrank this to a couple of weeks.
Prof. Robert J. Harrison will oversee the Institute's activities for sustainable, forward - looking and standards - oriented approach to
parallel computing including both hardware and software strategies.
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 28 — Researchers from Julia Computing, UC Berkeley, Intel, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and JuliaLabs@MIT have developed a
new parallel computing method to dramatically scale up the process of cataloging astronomical objects.
Analyzing the data involved developing new statistical methods to handle the complexities of how the malaria parasite evolves and is transmitted, verifying their correctness in simulations and
employing parallel computing — carrying out many calculations simultaneously — to handle the huge computational burden, Gilbert said.
Xeon Phi is at the heart of world's fastest commercial supercomputer, which thanks to the massively
parallel computing capabilities of Intel Xeon Phi processors coupled with Xeon Phi coprocessors attained 33.86 teraflops of benchmark performance in 2013.
For example we have not
utilised parallel compute contexts due to the lack of time and the «alpha» state of support on those consoles at that time.
As if this wasn't all enough, bring your old electronics to the Maker Faire to be recycled and they might just end up part of a veggie - oil
powered parallel computing cluster.
In 2006 it introduced CUDA,
a parallel computing architecture that allowed researchers to run extremely complex exercises on thousands of GPUs, taking the chips out of the sole realm of video games and making them accessible for all types of computing.
«I ended up pushing a larger percentage of my research portfolio over towards
these parallel computing model studies.»
The team designed MENNDL to use a deep learning framework called Caffe to carry out the computation, relying on
the parallel computing Message Passing Interface standard to divide and distribute data among nodes.
For the study, the research team used
a parallel computing code for modeling star clusters developed through a CIERA - supported interdisciplinary collaboration between Northwestern's physics and astronomy department and electrical engineering and computer science department.
How to integrate these devices in
a parallel computing architecture that mimics the working of the brain is a question that fascinates Banerjee.
The software uses up to 32 processors on the 256 - processor Cray T3D computer at
the parallel computing centre.
Currently the instructional and research programs include acoustics, electronics, medical physics, biophysics, biomedical laser applications, atomic collision processes, and
parallel computing.
Consequently, Schatz is particularly interested in capitalizing on the latest advances in distributed and
parallel computing, especially cloud computing technologies, to advance the state of the art in bioinformatics and genomics.
In addition to his research work, Stevens teaches courses on computer architecture, collaboration technology, virtual reality,
parallel computing and computational science.
Employing «massively
parallel computing,» Watson is able to produce natural language answers to natural language questions delivered in English — at least, questions of the Jeopardy kind that seek information.