Informatics team up with ARM to create faster computers
A new centre of excellence is to tackle one of the greatest computing challenges of the next decade - creating faster, more efficient software for multi-core devices.
Researchers at the School of Informatics are to work with leading microprocessor designers ARM to improve how computers can maximise their processing capacity.
Computing devices are increasingly using more than one processor - the units that read and execute instructions - to make them function more effectively. Components that use two or more independent processors are called multi-core devices.
But the software running on such devices has not developed as rapidly, which means this extra computing power is often not used efficiently. As computers become more powerful and use a greater number of processors, the problem becomes much more acute.
Now, University researchers are teaming with ARM to create a new Centre of Excellence, based at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics.
The new centre will use the University's world-class computer science and artificial intelligence expertise to investigate new ways of improving how computer programs utilise their existing processors.
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