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Intel readies massive multicore processors
News Intel is also tinkering with ways to let multicore chips share caches, pools of memory embedded in processors for rapid data access. Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate functionality of massive multicore chips to make it...
[June 14, 2007, 13:32]
Achieving Computational I/O Efficiency in a High Performance Cluster Using Multicore Processors
White Papers The recent popularity of multicore processors provides a flexible way to increase the computational capability of clusters. Although the system performance may improve with multicore processors in a cluster, I/O requests initiated by multiple cores...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft, Intel to sponsor multicore research
News Microsoft and Intel are expected to launch a joint research initiative on Tuesday to tackle programming for multicore processors. Without writing programs to be optimised for multicore processors, applications will not benefit from the added chip...
[March 17, 2008, 14:26]
Intel prepares to reveal all
News Intel plans to provide details on a new generation of multicore processors at its biannual developer conference in two weeks - and in the process highlight how its chip families are coming back together.
[August 12, 2005, 9:20]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews Vista was built to run on multicore processors, for example, while XP was primarily a single-threaded operating system. Although some multi-threaded apps such as Photoshop and iTunes are available, more programs released in the near future will be...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
Japanese researchers harness parallel chips
News A group of Japanese researchers is collaborating on a software standard for multicore processors to be used in a range of technology products, including mobile phones and in-vehicle navigation systems.
[September 30, 2009, 15:22]
Google acquires software start-up PeakStream
News Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips. Software is most often designed to run in a linear fashion on a single processing...
[June 6, 2007, 8:30]
26-Port 10GbE Switch Advantages in Blade Servers
White Papers With multicore processors and virtualization pushing blade-server performance to unprecedented levels, I/O performance must catch up - but without increasing cost per port or power consumption. Because today's multicore processors utilize the 8- to...
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
IBM plans revamp of server pricing
News New server technologies, such as multicore processors and virtualisation, have led IBM to begin radically revamping its server software pricing method. With the arrival of multicore processors, which feature two or more processing engines on a...
[July 25, 2006, 8:40]
Oracle cuts fees in multicore shift
News In a move that counters Microsoft's growing database influence, Oracle has quietly cut software prices on some lower-end servers using multicore processors. The database software giant is effectively modernising its licensing policies to...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News The move could worry other software vendors as they come to terms with the impact that the new generation of dual-core and multicore processors will have on their pricing strategies. The move is significant as the software industry tries to come to...
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
Intel to elaborate on new multicore processor
News So-called multicore designs that include several processors on the same chip are an increasingly popular way to use the ever-larger amounts of circuitry that advanced manufacturing processes permit, but other companies are slightly ahead of Intel...
[September 1, 2003, 10:25]
The software licensing shake-up
News The catalyst for this shift is the emergence of a new approach to chip engineering: multicore processors. AMD and then Intel pushed the technology into the mainstream when they began to talk of manufacturing multicore processors in quantity.
[September 29, 2005, 15:45]
Start-up software harnesses processing power
News PeakStream's development software product will let programmers take advantage of three chip advancements, said chief executive Neil Knox: multicore processors, increasingly powerful graphics chips and the Cell Broadband Engine chip co-developed by...
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
Apple: Snow Leopard set to unleash chip power
News At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software engineering, shed light on technology called Grand Central Dispatch that is designed to make Mac OS X 10.6, called Snow...
[June 9, 2009, 9:21]
BEA shifts some multicore pricing
News Since their introduction, dual-core and multicore processors have attracted controversy, largely because suppliers have had difficulty pricing them. Multicore systems with four or more processors offer "huge advantages in performance", which is why...
[August 23, 2005, 17:35]
Should programming supercomputers be hard?
Comment The invasion of multicore processors has made this harder, but we must look for tools and technologies to swing personal HPC back to simplicity for the programmer and user. First, parallel hardware — whether multicore processors or graphical...
[October 1, 2009, 11:41]
Sun set to redesign UltraSparc
News But as applications become less dependent on the underlying operating system and chip architecture, businesses will be able to more easily take advantage of multicore processors, Papadopoulos said. The systems will exploit so-called "multicore...
[February 24, 2003, 15:29]
Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps
News As we now deliver multicore processors to every machine on the planet, there's far more economic value for software developers to take advantage of it," Gelsinger pointed out. James highlighted an example of multicore use in healthcare, where...
[August 21, 2008, 10:42]
Oracle's core problem
Leader It's not likely that General Electric or Texaco will be running their businesses on games consoles any time soon, but it is absolutely guaranteed that the next five years will see servers make a complete transition to multicore processors.
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
