LONDON — Despite moves by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to bring their dual and four-core processors into embedded applications, there is a sense that some of the companies that ...

Symmetric Multiprocessing Vs. Asymmetric Processing. Dec. 13, 2007. Engineers contemplating a migration from a single-core to a multicore processor must identify where parallelism exists in their ...

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) In order to guaranty coherency between data in main memory and data in the various caches, the design of a conventional SMP system is following the MESI protocol: M ...

Dive into how symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and asymmetric multiprocessing (ASMP), often referred to as virtualization, or hypervisor technology, can improve your machine controller.

Over at GeekNet, R. Colin Johnson writes that while the new Intel MIC architecture poses some parallel programming challenges, Intel is working with ScaleMP to make this transition nearly painless.

VMware at its first user conference announced it will introduce a four-way virtual symmetric multiprocessing server architecture. Called 4-Way VMware Virtual SMP, the virtual machine architecture ...

DDC has updated its MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC-429 software development kits with support for SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) under the latest Linux operating system. SMP can increase the performance of ...

Apple has been selling dual-processor Power Macs for a while now. But multiprocessing as a technology has met limited acceptance among Mac users, finding a home mainly among graphics professionals ...