HP today announced that it has proven the existence of a new basic element, an intriguing breakthrough that could lead to big advancements to anything that uses electronic circuits.
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Dale Hunscher, who is involved in clinical research informatics at the University of Michigan Medical School, quotes various multicore programming articles and writes his opinions.
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Javolution creator Jean-Marie Dautelle discusses different methods to reduce the worst-case execution time of Java applications by leveraging the extra processing power of multicore systems. Java world has the full article.

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In a survey conducted by Virtutech and Freescale Semiconductor, it is found that Embedded systems developers will make a slow transition to multicore processors, driven by a need for performance but concerned about difficulty programming the new chips and a lack of software standards.
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IBM’s multicore Cell processor has garnered a lot of media attention over the last couple of years, as the multicore approach itself has become something of a juggernaut. Embedded.com investigated the current state of IBM’s multicore Cell processors, and whether the architecture is likely to get significant traction in embedded applications.
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NY Times report that Stanford University and six computer and chip makers plan to announce Friday the creation of the Pervasive Parallelism Lab to work on new types of software needed to better use computer chips that can process many tasks at the same time. Besides Stanford, the backers are Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, [...]

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Chip makers are already creating designs that stretch beyond two cores. Just last month, Raza Microelectronics Inc. in Cupertino, Calif., began shipping its XLR processor line with up to eight cores operating at a frequency of up to 1.5 GHz. Each processing core supports four threads, or simultaneous instructions, for 32 total threads.
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AMD has squeezed an awful lot out of its AMD64 architecture since it first materialised in 2003, and even the latest K10 core used in the Phenom chips uses basically the same architecture with a different cache system. However, the company says that it’s now looking at a whole new architecture for the next generation [...]

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This morning we posted a link to where AMD processors have problems. Here is a link where Intel processors have scalability problems. TG Daily reports that researchers from the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (CRD/NERSC) recently submitted a paper to the IEEE, highlighting the subject of scaling an optimized [...]

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Tilera Corporation, developer of the breakthrough TILE(TM) family of high-performance multicore processors for the embedded market, today announced that it will demonstrate the open source SNORT software running on Tilera’s TILE64(TM) processor.

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CNET reports that Advanced Micro Devices’ high-end quad-core Phenom chips are facing compatibility issues with select circuit boards as the chipmaker struggles to churn out processors that are competitive with Intel’s offerings.
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Cray Inc. and Intel Corporation announced today they signed a multi-year agreement to advance high-performance computing (HPC) on Intel microprocessors while delivering broad new Intel and Cray technologies in future Cray server systems. The collaboration of these two industry leaders will result in HPC systems that will help solve some of the world’s most complex [...]

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As part of its Sustainable Computing Program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will support four academic research projects focused on energy efficiency in computing in the areas of datacenter power efficiency, power management and the creation of parallel computing architecture with decreased power demands.

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Futuremark (www.futuremark.com) brings users one step closer to understanding the performance potential of their personal computers with the launch of 3DMark® Vantage. Gamers, media and OEMs now have a modern gaming performance benchmark to measure native DirectX 10 and multi-core CPU performance with large amounts of physics, AI and graphics.

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According to Moore’s law, processor performance has been increasing much faster than that of memory, which causes stall time in accessing memory. Here is an article by By Bridget Botelho showing the current trends of memory performance and energy efficiency in the multicore era. A point that caught my eye was a statement by Bret [...]

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A research paper exploring ways to make a popular scientific analysis code run smoothly on different types of multicore computers won a Best Paper Award at the IPDPS 2008 Conference.
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In an interview with Donald Knuth, a renowned computer scientist, he talks about the problem with multicore architecture and mentions that surprised at all if the whole multithreading idea turns out to be a flop.
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tgdaily claims that this morning they received delicate details about AMD’s answer to Intel’s Montevina design from their moles in Taiwan. The information they claimed could get you concerned about the new mobile processor Griffin as well as the Puma platform.

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Douglas Eadline says before tucking into that next project, developers really need to start asking themselves, “What’s this going to cost me?”.

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The Salishan Conference on High-Speed Computing convenes annually at Salishan Lodge in Gleneden Beach, Oregon. Dan Reed of Microsoft writes on his blog that in addition to exascale computing, the other debate at Salishan concerned programming models for multicore chips and the right mix of on-chip functions.
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