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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]
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]
The Next Evolution In Enterprise Computing: The Convergence Of Multicore X86 Processing And 64-Bit Operating Systems
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of the market progression toward 64-bit computing and multicore processing to satisfy the need for greater computing performance in the x86 market. The convergence of these two technologies will deliver...
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
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 28, 2008, 23:00]
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 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]
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]
Knuth: Multicore Engineers
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 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]
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]
Otellini's Eye On Multicore Computing And WiMax
News IDF: Intel's president sees points to multicore computing and WiMax as the next areas of performance improvement and market growth
[September 10, 2004, 15:40]
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. Previous limits precluded use of the software in some multicore configurations — for...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
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 2, 2008, 9:40]
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...
[April 30, 2008, 20:09]
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 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, 15:04]
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]
AMD And Intel Heat Up Multicore Chip Race
News But chip and PC companies will have to keep a close eye on the utilisation rates of their multicore chips to stay cool into the next decade. But if they begin running numerous applications in multiple virtual environments on multicore processors...
[August 3, 2006, 16:50]
Sun To Ship Dual-Niagara Servers In 2008
News Sun has finished the design of "Victoria Falls", a Niagara 2 processor variation for servers with two of the multicore chips, and plans to begin shipping the machines in the first half of 2008. The Santa Clara, California-based company, after years...
[February 7, 2007, 9:23]
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]
