A new whitepaper from NEC X delves into the world of unstructured data and explores how vector processors and their optimization software can help solve the challenges of wrangling the ever-growing ...

Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation ...

Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. Cray Inc. plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four ...

We had reached out to NEC for comment and had not heard back as yet when this story ran, but we have added the comment to the bottom of this story. The only reason we bring this up at all is that ...

Virtually every microprocessor and DSP in use today uses the stored-program concept designed by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann more than 50 years ago. Using this architecture, programs and ...