In “This Week in Multicore”, we provide highlights from news and information related to multicore processors we reported at MulticoreInfo.com in the past week. Many of these have been popular reads on our site and some of them are just very interesting.

We linked to a bunch of articles related to Intel’s new Nehalem based Xeon 5500 series processors.
* Intel showcases ‘tranformational’ Nehalem
* Intel’s New Nehalem Drives Virtualization, Cloud Computing
* Intel Positions Nehalem as a Watershed Product
* A Closer Look at Intel’s “Nehalem”-based Xeon 5500 Series
* HPC Vendors Jump On Nehalem

In other multicore news:
UPCRC Illinois Summer School on Multicore Programming

Are you concerned about multicore?

Multicore and Parallelism: Catching Up [Interview with David Bader]

IMEC unveils tools to speed design of energy-efficient MPSoCs

“Multithreaded Algorithms” Chapter from “Introduction to Algorithms” Book

A First Look at the Intel Larrabee New Instructions (LRBni)

Key To Innovation: Universities