Remember that all the retailer MDBs process in parallel; hence, they all return the results in approximately 15 seconds, which is the minimum time to search a single retailer.

"Win32 was never designed for highly concurrent, asynchronous processing," said Mundie during a recent interview I had with him last week at the Emerging Technology Conference in Cambridge, Mass.

Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

It’s actually a significant process, since as Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, admits, “Win32 was never designed for highly concurrent, asynchronous processing ...

For parallel processing to work central control must be light. This is almost never the case in a proprietary company, which has to serve a schedule, grow earnings on a regular basis, and manage ...