AMD helping developers get ready for octo-core
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| In that spirit, AMD plans to let developers take a crack at its Light-Weight
| Profiler Tuesday as a possible assist for the growing problem faced by PC
| software developers: just how the hell are we going to effectively use
| processors with multiple cores? AMD's LWP could let applications written for
| runtime environments like Java or .Net interact directly with hardware to
| know how much performance is available across a series of cores, said Earl
| Stahl, vice president of software alliances for AMD.
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http://news.com.com/8301-13579_3-9759153-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Linux is working better on multi-core processors (see below).
Intel Offers New Versions of Quad-Core Processors
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| Using the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark, which measures integer throughput,
| a Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY RX300 S3 server based on the quad-core Intel Xeon
| Processor X5365 running SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) with SPEC
| binaries built using Intel compiler 10.0, scored 98.9, setting a new world
| record.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11178/intel-offers-new-versions-quad-core-processors
Related:
Where's The Software To Catch Up To Multicore Computing?
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| A look at the Top500 Supercomputer Sites List (www.top500.org) shows
| that a large portion of the technical computing workload has moved
| to commodity Linux clusters: commodity servers, commodity
| networks and commodity storage
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001130
Quad-core on Vista Home, an Intel exclusive
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| According to the tech sheet on ExtremeTech as well as other
| websites, Vista home only supports one physical processor.
| This means that AMD's 4x4 platform, which uses 2 dual-core
| chips, will not work.
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http://clocksarestupid.net/articles/2007/01/21/quad-core-on-vista-home-an-intel-exclusive
http://tinyurl.com/yu2456
Start-up goes mad over Windows app for multi-core chips
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| The beta version of PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows
| serves the same function as its existing Linux counterpart.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/27/peakstream_windows_beta/
SMP and Embedded Real Time
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| Because not all embedded systems vendors will be willing or able
| to create or purchase SMP real-time operating systems, we can
| expect that a number of them will make use of Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| I hope I have convinced you that the -rt patchset greatly
| advances Linux's parallel real-time capabilities, and that Linux
| is quickly becoming capable of supporting the parallel real-time
| applications that are appearing in embedded environments.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9361
Multi-Core Processors Challenging Traditional Software Pricing Models
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| However, Microsoft Corp. hasn't hopped on this train yet; it plans
| to continue to charge per processor for software
|
| [...]
|
| Another strategy for CIOs, suggested Giera, would be to consider
| using open-source software as an alternative to commercial software
| during the transition period.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061009/18110_id.html?.v=1n
FALL IDF - VirtualLogix supports multiple OSs
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| Engineers can use VLX for Network Infrastructure to run multiple
| operating systems on a single multicore processor, hosting both
| Linux and a real time operating system (RTOS) without incurring the
| expense of using separate hardware platforms. It also makes it easier
| to migrate applications from traditional single-core chips to Intel's
| Core 2 Duo E6400 or T7400 chips.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1085526947&rid=-50
Multi-core PowerPC chips target telecom apps
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| Freescale has announced a new family of multi-core,
| PowerPC-based communications processors built on 45nm
| process technology.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7725687443.html
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