The field of parallel computing has experienced significant advancements as modern processors increasingly incorporate a high number of cores, thereby realising unprecedented computational performance ...

How different the datacenter would look if symmetric multiprocessing could somehow magically scale well beyond 32, 64, or 128 processors. And it would even be a vast improvement if NUMA scaling worked ...

For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. This was a boon for X86 servers during the ...

SGI recently debuted its new 64-bit, 64-processor, Linux system based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor—a significant announcement for the company and for Linux. This system marks the opening of a new ...