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Multicore chips leave software trailing, warns Gartner
News Gartner sounded a warning on Wednesday about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor can handle. In a research note, the analysts argued that software is struggling to keep pace with...
[January 28, 2009, 16:02]
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]
Intel open sources multicore development tool
News Intel is scheduled to release the source code to a development tool for writing applications to run on multicore chips on Tuesday. Software vendors and chip manufacturers have, for the last few years, urged programmers to retool their applications...
[July 24, 2007, 13:49]
Intel to elaborate on new multicore processor
News Sun plans to launch a higher-end multicore chip after Niagara that will feature both the multicore design and fast individual thread performance. The multicore approach to building processors is a natural way of taking advantage of Moore's Law...
[September 1, 2003, 10:25]
Bright new future of multicore, circa 1994
Blog An article in German tech publication c't sheds a bit more light on Larrabee, Intel's much anticipated multicore chip. It's a graphics engine! It's an accelerator! It's going to wipe out nVidia with ray-tracing!
[July 9, 2008, 13:58]
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. Although the two PC industry giants have yet to announce the research venture at the time of writing, the Wall Street...
[March 17, 2008, 14:26]
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]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment We constantly run pseudo-parallel O/S tasks whether we know it or not; providing the contention for shared resources can be mitigated, multicore processors could provide a massive benefit by genuinely isolating and parallelising these tasks.
[April 29, 2008, 14:29]
How Multicore Processing and 64-Bit Operating Systems Enhance a Utility Computing Environment
White Papers As the concept of a pool of resources develops, technologies like multicore and 64-bit computing in the x86 space are helping to mature the utility environment, expand the pool of potential applications and dissolve even more barriers in today's...
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Multicore coding tools on the way from Accenture
News Companies have been warned about the disruption that could be caused by the need to rewrite legacy code to take full advantage of the move to multicore computing. There's a lot of very old code out there so there will be quite a disruption to...
[April 7, 2006, 16:40]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Of most relevance today, though, are his thoughts on multicore. Donald Knuth (yes, that Donald Knuth) has given a long and interesting interview with the Informit website -- which I hadn't come across before: it's a joint venture between various...
[April 29, 2008, 12:19]
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]
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. Previous limits precluded use of the software in some multicore configurations — for...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
Intel: Multicore chips outstripping software
News Intel has also been releasing more of its own software tools aimed at harnessing multicore performance. Already, chipmakers like Intel and AMD are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever...
[May 29, 2007, 13:05]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment I agree with the analogy. I'm also pretty sure we'll get there, can't think of too many occassions where progress has just 'stopped' due to the challenges! Thanks for your insight, have enjoyed the discussion.
[May 22, 2008, 10:37]
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. Leading up to the announcement, James noted that having more processing...
[August 21, 2008, 10:42]
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News ARM also intends the multicore Cortex-A9 design to be used in consumer equipment. This is a huge departure from what we've done in the past," Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing for ARM's processor division, told ZDNet UK.
[September 16, 2009, 10:00]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment The problems lie everywhere on the stack. To some extent, we've fixed the problem at top and bottom - our applications and presentation layers are inherently parallel these days, now we've moved on from everything being a dumb terminal at the end...
[April 29, 2008, 15:01]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment I tell you now, if you can pick apart the workings of Intels Ct compiler in 50 minutes someone should erect a statue in your honour! I appreciate your point about modern applications not making use of parallellism, but is this not a case of...
[April 30, 2008, 14:39]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment I see the problem of parallel computing as a chasm. On this side, we're stuck with lots of old ideas which don't benefit much from parallelism: on the other, there's a whole new world of extracting information from data by understanding context...
[May 1, 2008, 8:20]
