Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

So I was trying to have a quiet hangover and mix with the good and the great of the industry the other morning at yet another technical meeting. I think I would have been quiet happy to thumb through ...

Parallel processing is an idea that will be familiar to most readers. Few of you will not be reading this on a device with only one processor core, and quite a few of you will have experimented with ...

The laboratory is shrinking. Scientists and engineers are borrowing miniaturization, integration, and parallel-processing techniques from the computer industry to develop laboratory devices and ...

Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing. But the next release of Windows client and server also are going ...

If I can't do parallel processing, can someone tell me how to tell my client to go defrag itself, or run other fix utilities from my host without the utility running on the host instead? I would like ...