The Parallel Computing Imperative
Why we need it, how it works and the benefits it delivers

The Bloor Group, White Paper

By virtue of Moore's Law, disruptive changes occur in computer power roughly every six years, because every six years chips run about ten times faster.  But, in 2004, the chip market itself was disrupted, as it encountered a limit to CPU clock speeds. It forced chip manufacturers to start adding multiple cores to CPU chips so that they doubled their processing power every 18 months by a different route. Unfortunately, this change of direction has become highly disruptive to software technologies, since most software is not designed to utilize multiple cores. Now, software now needs to run in parallel to exploit the extra cores.

This free white paper examines the alternatives available for achieving this, taking care to explain and describe different approaches to parallelism.  In particular we review and compare two software platforms that are designed for parallelism:  Hadoop and Pervasive DataRush. 

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