Back before the rise of client-server computing, one of the holy grails of computer science was distributed massively parallel computing. Under this architecture, multiple types of computers — ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing Oy today revealed seemingly outlandish plans to transform the chip industry with a new Parallel Processing Unit that it says can boost the performance of any central ...

Sybase IQ will soon be run on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing ...

The term supercomputer does get tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? What does a computer need to do to be ...

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a leading analytics solutions company, announced Teradata Everywhere™, an industry first that brings the world’s most powerful massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...