Google sends multicore warning: wimpy cores don’t cut it
Updated: 2010-09-29 16:37:40
Google’s senior vice president of operations has written a short but powerful paper for IEEE Micro, in which he advises companies to exercise caution before deploying too many “wimpy cores”. While Urs Hoelzle says Google is enthusiastic about supporting multicore systems, he adds there can be drawbacks to using wimpy-core systems, which are those where the single core performance [...]

Last week at IDF, James Reinders (evangelist for Intel’s software and services group) delivered a presentation in partnership with Steve Teixeira (Product Unit Manager, Parallel Computing Platform Developer Division, Microsoft) to show how Intel tools and Microsoft’s Visual Studio work well together. The key lesson, Teixeira said, was that the paradigms used in both are [...]
Last week at IDF, I got a first look at the new Intel Array Building Blocks (ArBB), a new approach for exploiting the multicore and SIMD hardware of a machine. As I blogged, previously, Intel Array Building Blocks includes a virtual machine that compiles the program at runtime to use the available architecture. That means [...]
With eight processing threads and 8MB of Intel Smart Cache the Core i7 is hardly backwards in terms of processing horsepower. Watch it being thrashed in a media processing competition against Intel’s new second generation Core processor, part of Dadi Perlmutter’s day one keynote at IDF 2010. A high-def source file running at 30mb/s is processed by [...]
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