Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Parallelizing common algorithms
Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
Simulating tomorrow’s chips
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
Language barrier
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
The next operating system
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
Designing the hardware
Improving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.
The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
Multicore may not be so scary
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more ‘cores,’ or processing units, to computer chips.
Mastering multicore
MIT researchers find a way to make complex computer simulations run more efficiently on chips with multiple processors.
Parallel course
As chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.