As you’ve probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS ...

Apple earlier this year said that Snow Leopard won't include a raft of new features, but instead, will represent an architectural shift in OS X that's focused on multicore processor support and making ...

Back in 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the semiconductor industry could double the number of transistors on a chip every 12 months (he later amended it to 24 months) for about the ...

The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple’s CEO lets fly with very quotable, very understandable quotes about OS X 10.6. We already heard the details, but it was still hard to ...

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 ...

One of my clients, DataCore Software, sent along a press release touting the performance improvements provided by its new release of DataCore SANsymphony software-defined storage (SDS) platform and ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

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