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 [...]
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Nine million gamers can’t be wrong. That’s how many Civilization games have been sold worldwide, making it one of the most popular gaming series ever to be released. But version five of this strategy classic has had a multithreaded makeover which leaves the previous versions standing. And it might have the nine million and more [...]
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EE Times is hosting a virtual conference called ‘Approaching Multicore.’ It is billed as unique because it’s designed for a wide-ranging audience including “system architects, high-performance system designers, software developers, programmers and future, hesitant and curious multicore developers.” The conference is scheduled for Thursday 30 September, running from 11am to 6pm EDT (4pm-11pm, UK time). [...]
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