Here is a post on Rogue Wave on strategies that are defining current multicore evolution. There are homogeneous multicore and heterogeneous multicore technologies. This post gives a brief summary of which companies are pursuing what technology.
“All of the major computer hardware vendors have been moving to multi-core CPUs for several years now, creating the situation that we refer to as the Multi-core Dilemma, which I have written about for several years. Recently, more choices for parallel hardware have become available for enterprise applications. This will lead to some great opportunities but will also require tricky decisions of software development organizations.
Some of the new multi-core hardware will look more homogeneous, like a group of CPUs. Some of the new multi-core hardware will start to look more heterogeneous, like a CPU surrounded by different specialized cores like GPUs (graphical processing units) and others. Both approaches are going to benefit the industry on the whole, but there are pros and cons for each that should be factored into your software development planning. This is my breakdown of the hardware vendors’ strategy.”
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1 Homogenous vs. heterogenous multi-core: hardware strategies (Part 2) // Nov 26, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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