There've been reports buzzing around that AMD's Ryzen CPU performs much better by some metrics in Windows 7 compared with Windows 10. AMD has investigated those claims itself and released its own ...

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...

So, my research group just bought a compute cluster of six dual G5 XServes (wheee!). They're operating great, and people have even begun to multithread their code to take full advantage of the dual ...

The relationship between processor and operating system is crucial. If an OS can’t properly manage the tasks set before it, it doesn’t matter how fast the CPU runs. At a private press and analyst ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...

It has been two weeks since AMD launched its Ryzen processor line in conjunction with its AM4 platform. The feedback has been mostly positive, save for lower-than-expected gaming performance at 1080p.

Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...