As someone who has spent the better part of two decades optimizing distributed systems—from early MapReduce clusters to ...

The new satellite constellation demonstrates next-generation distributed computing with the potential to transform global data operations.

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

Until the late 1990s, the concept of a 3D accelerator card was something generally associated with high-end workstations. Video games and kin would run happily on the CPU in one’s desktop sys… ...

In this paper, we present our Concurrent Systems class, where parallel programming and parallel and distributed computing (PDC) concepts have been taught for more than 20 years. Despite several rounds ...

The IEEE Computer Society has selected Keshav Pingali to receive the 2023 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award. At The University of Texas at Austin, Pingali is the W.A. "Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and ...

While operating a successful distributed system is a big step forward for quantum computing, the team reiterates that the engineering challenges remain daunting.

Parallel computing is the fundamental concept that, along with advanced semiconductors, has ushered in the generative-AI boom.

PySpark: deployed as the engine for distributed computing, optimizes computational efficiency in ETL processes by distributing data across multiple nodes for parallel processing, scaling to match ...

Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster? Here’s the white paper and FAQs The company claims its parallel processing ideas can double performance overnight.