He discusses the best tools for parallel processing like Intel Parallel Studio XE and Intel Parallel Building Blocks.

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As we already know, AMD recently set up the HSA Foundation to promote its vision for better parallel processing -- and especially GPU compute -- in mobiles and PCs.

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Weinberger tackled those problems by designing his chip from scratch, finding ways to split out parts of laborious signal-processing tasks and handle them in parallel.

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Recently the concept of massively parallel processing has regained popularity as relatively inexpensive computers and large of amounts of memory can be combined to solve problems not previously able to be tackled.

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Back home, they hooked up their cheap computers and hard drives to each other to form a sort of homemade parallel processing system.

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The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.

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Parallel processing is a technology most commonly associated with supercomputers, and the graphics processing units found in PCs and gaming consoles.

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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.

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