Mithal led the development of two parallel computing languages, Id and pH, and also founded two start-ups – one of which went on to be acquired by Broadcom. Renowned computer scientist and professor ...

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 system, with ...

In the world of High Performance Computing (HPC), Beowulf clustering stands in a class of its own. Beowulf is an approach to building a supercomputer by means of clustering commodity off-the-shelf ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...