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The Trouble with Multicore
| 2010-07-02 |
This month’s IEEE Spectrum discusses the ongoing challenge of software development efforts to keep pace with new processor technology. It turns out parallelization is harder to pull off than imagined. And this could have significant ramifications on how applications make use of multicore processors in the future.
IEEE Spectrum reports on software development tools’ success or lack of it in utilizing the full capabilities of multicore processors.
The article notes when Intel made its major shift to multicore in 2004, a slew software development tool companies bet their futures on the transition. Most lost.
What is the next step? The article discusses three scenarios that are likely to happen over the next 10 years.
Read the full IEEE Spectrum article here.
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