This four-year project, which includes collaborators from the University of Houston, is set to turn traditional computing on ...

IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, is collaborating with European Union (EU) partners on the ACOTES project, an EU funded initiative aiming to maximize the potential of parallel computing in chips, while ...

A European group of high technology companies and research groups, in an ACOTES Project collaboration, will research and implement the advantages of massive parallel processing for consumer devices.

This week Intel announced the beta release of a new application for Facebook that lets users donate their unused cycles to further research through computing tasks. Think Seti@Home for the the social ...

The University of Washington has become the first university to join a new academic initiative launched by IBM and Google, according to information released last week by IBM. The goal of the ...

Microsoft has a wide variety of ongoing projects in the parallel/distributed computing space, from its Axum concurrent-computing language, to the Parallel FX extenions to the .Net Framework.

Expanding on its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft is launching on Wednesday TC Labs, a resource for developers to access early releases of Technical Computing software. The company is ...

Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft's Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to ...