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Tilera 100-core Processor beats Intel Sandybridge
Tilera wants to put a direct competition to Intel’s current generation processor, Sandybridge, in the server environment. Their desperate chips are based on 40nm fabrication technology based on 64-bit architecture….
New Research brings 20% Performance Improvement to Multi-Core Applications
Multi-core, initially targeted for Servers, eventually, became part of our desktops and portables. But what is still lacking is “efficient parallelization” of programs — Our modern Multicore applications still don’t take the…
Hyper Threading CPU vs. Dual, Multi-Core
In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading….
AMD’s Six-Core Low-Power 40Watt Opteron EE for Servers
AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The overhauled chip offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. According to AMD spokesperon Brent Kerby, companies that require…
The Multicore Performance wall
Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory…
