For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

Successive generations of single-core processors no longer show much performance improvement — Moore's Law has run out for the single core, at least in terms of what can be done within the heat and ...

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TL;DR: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reveals Unreal Engine 6 is 2-3 years away, promising major upgrades like enhanced multi-threaded performance and unified development across platforms. UE6 aims to ...

Like what does it do/effect really? There are those double socket multicore xeon systems out there, but their single thread sucks. then theres threadripper which seems to crush both. All CPU bound ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...