A few days ago, Lou Covey and I published an article for EDN about how not all forms of multiprocessing were created equal. FPGAs got some appropriate billing in that ...

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

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 22, 2010 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the Mentor Embedded™ Nucleus® SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) technology and support for the Multicore ...

Last week we talked about the different ways of combining the power of multiple cores on a single chip, using complementary methods known as symmetric and asymmetric ...

When we hear the term “multiprocessing,” we often associate it with “symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).” This is because of SMP’s initial prevalence in the high-performance computing world, and now in ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PX5, a global leader in high-performance real-time operating systems and middleware, today announced hard real-time Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and Symmetric ...

Has your system's database become enormous? Are you having to add more users to the system than you anticipated? Is your application beginning to perform like a subcompact towing a trailer uphill?

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 will ...

TOKYO, JAPAN AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Sept. 8, 2006 – eSOL Co., Ltd. and ARM [(LSE: ARM; (Nasdaq: ARMHY)[, today announced the eT-Kernel Multi-Core Edition real-time operating system (RTOS) coupled ...

Though the use of multiple processors has grown in recent years, multiprocessor computers are more than 30 years old. Since this time, their capabilities have evolved as much as their implementation.

Multicore solutions may be finding their way into more projects, but opinions vary on the best architecture to use. When it comes to multiprocessing, what’s good for the hardware goose is not ...