Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

By Samuel K. Moore
With no other way to improve the performance of processors further, chip makers have staked their future [...]

Desktop Supercomputer

Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer from PhysOrg.com
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
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