PACT announced beta availability of its XPP Vectorizing C-Compiler (XPP-VC) technology. This is designed to allow developers to create "virtual reconfigurable ASICs" using existing C language source ...

The performance of the full table scan is critical for the overall performance of column-store database systems such as the SAP HANA database. Compressing the underlying column data format is both an ...

Over at the Walking Randomly blog, Michael Croucher from the University of Manchester writes that there are many routes for programmers to take advantage of AVX vectorization on Sandy Bridge CPUs.