high-speed-computing

switch to parallel coding

we all writing code for single processor. i wonder when we all are able to write code on multi processors? what do we need (software tools, logic, algorithms) for this switching? edit: in my view, as we do many task parallely, same way we need to convert those real life solutions(algorithms) to computer lang. just as OOPs coding did fo...

Higher speed options for executing very large (20 GB) .sql file in MySQL

My firm was delivered a 20+ GB .sql file in reponse to a request for data from the gov't. I don't have many options for getting the data in a different format, so I need options for how to import it in a reasonable amount of time. I'm running it on a high end server (Win 2008 64bit, MySQL 5.1) using Navicat's batch execution tool. It's b...