How do you test how effective an operating system is at managing workloads across multiple cores? That’s the question that a team from ETH Zurich has asked itself in its work developing the Barrelfish operating system, designed for multicore and manycore architectures. And the team came up with a surprising answer: the existing benchmarks are [...]
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A friend of mine is buying a new computer at the moment, and since I know a thing or two about that and he doesn’t really know much about hardware, he invited me along to help him out. One of the things that interested me most was how many cores the different models had, but [...]
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I’m based in London, so my events coverage tends to focus on what’s going on in the city here, but there are loads of developer events happening all over the UK. One that’s been brought to my attention is a meetup taking place on Tuesday 6 December (next Tuesday) at The Seven Oaks, 5 Nicholas [...]
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