War of the Cloud Drives Today, users have many choices for synchronizing files and backing important memories and personal assets including music, pictures, notes, business documents, and other personal or business files.  Recently Microsoft and Google have upped the ante against Dropbox and Apple with their latest offerings.  The offerings range from free to premium…

As we enter the second decade of the third millennium, I have been thinking about my previous talks on a “Manycore future.”  Based on trends of single core use in desktop computers and mobile devices, which has ended on the desktop and looks to end soon on smart phones, plus the growth of multi-core computing, primarily…