Industry Experts Share Lessons from the Multi-core Front

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Software developers know that the days of single-processor servers are long dead, but many still aren’t convinced their legacy applications have a future in a multi-core world. To date, only technology companies with the largest in-house IT organizations such as Google and Amazon.com have consistently been able to achieve higher performance from multi-core architectures running on commodity hardware. However, with computing loads increasing across all industries, more conventional companies will be faced with the need to migrate even though they lack the expertise, resources or budget to tackle the problem the way the largest IT teams have.

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