A paper from Google’s Urs Hölzle states that brawny-core systems, whose single-core performance is fairly high, beat wimpy-core systems, whose single-core performance is low most of the time. The paper will appear in IEEE Micro 2010.
Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time
September 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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1 Avoid Deploying LiveCycle on Servers With “Wimpy Core” CPUs | LiveCycle Product Blog // Oct 4, 2010 at 6:40 pm
[...] Urs Hölzle, Google’s Senior VP of Operations has published a very interesting article in the July/August 2010 “Datacenter Computing” issue of the journal IEEE Micro comparing the performance of what he calls “wimpy core” CPUs against “brawny core” CPUs. You can get it here. [...]
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