Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Vendors are pushing the multicore envelope, aiming to boost performance, especially for multithreaded applications. Vendors are pushing the multicore envelope, aiming to boost performance, especially ...