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Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

The top-end 12-core Mac Pro reviewed here is an expensive specialist purchase, but there are plenty of more affordable configurations for those with less exotic requirements. We have some quibbles, but the Mac Pro is highly recommended. However, cautious buyers may want to wait for the 2011 version with Intel's forthcoming Sandy Bridge processors. Read more

26 October, 2010 by Charles McLellan

Half of smartphones to be multicore by 2015

...chips in more mobiles... Almost half of all smartphones will be packing multicore chips in four years' time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Is 2012 set to be the year of quad-core mobiles?

...iOS and RIM's BlackBerry Tablet OS (and BlackBerry 10) all support multicore CPUs. Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system does not currently support multicore... Read more

12 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

...parallel in nature to start with. A lot of the angst against multicore/many-core in general is people think, "I've got my application... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Google releases H1 hardware encoder for VP8 tech

...720p at 60 FPS. Without a hardware accelerator like the H1, modern multicore mobile devices can only encode video at around VGA 25 FPS, and... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

ARM to lead EuroCloud green datacentre project

...leading a European Commission-funded datacentre research project to look into using multicore processors to try to deliver energy-efficient cloud-computing services to mobile... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Richard Thurston
Intel: Why a 1,000-core chip is feasible

Intel: Why a 1,000-core chip is feasible

Intel engineer Timothy Mattson explains why he thinks his company has a processor architecture that could scale to 1,000 cores Read more

25 December, 2010 by Jack Clark
Leveraging Core Specialization Via OS Scheduling to Improve Performance on Asymmetric <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Systems

Leveraging Core Specialization Via OS Scheduling to Improve Performance on Asymmetric Multicore Systems

Asymmetric Multicore Processors (AMPs) consist of cores with the same ISA (instruction-set architecture... Read more

1 April, 2012
Performance Modelling of <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> and Manycore Networked Systems

Performance Modelling of Multicore and Manycore Networked Systems

Multicore computer systems are adopting more cores to meet the increasing performance requirement... Read more

1 March, 2012
Data Access Partitioning for Fine-Grain Parallelism on <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Architectures

Data Access Partitioning for Fine-Grain Parallelism on Multicore Architectures

The recent design shift towards multicore processors has spawned a significant amount of research in the area of... Read more

1 January, 2012
A Flexible and Parameterized Architecture for <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Microcontroller

A Flexible and Parameterized Architecture for Multicore Microcontroller

...and preliminary tests in FPGA of a specific architecture for a flexible multicore microcontroller. It is aimed to intermediate complexity embedded applications. A previous exact... Read more

1 November, 2011
A Software Approach to Unifying <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Caches

A Software Approach to Unifying Multicore Caches

Multicore chips will have large amounts of fast on-chip cache memory, along... Read more

29 June, 2011
Energy and Performance Characteristics of Different Parallel Implementations of Scientific Applications on <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Systems

Energy and Performance Characteristics of Different Parallel Implementations of Scientific Applications on Multicore Systems

Energy consumption is a major concern with high performance multicore systems. In this paper, the authors explore the energy consumption and performance... Read more

20 June, 2011
Power-Aware Predictive Models of Hybrid (MPI/OpenMP) Scientific Applications on <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Systems

Power-Aware Predictive Models of Hybrid (MPI/OpenMP) Scientific Applications on Multicore Systems

...models enable a better understanding of the performance characteristics of applications on multicore systems. Previous work has utilized performance counters in a system-centered approach... Read more

8 June, 2011
WCET-Aware Optimization of Shared Cache Partition and Bus Arbitration for Hard Real-Time <endeca_term>Multicore</endeca_term> Systems

WCET-Aware Optimization of Shared Cache Partition and Bus Arbitration for Hard Real-Time Multicore Systems

In recent years, multicore processors have been receiving a significant amount of attention from avionic and... Read more

1 May, 2011

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