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Multi-core Software

September 15, 2K6

Doubling the number of cores on a processor in theory doubles performance.

While certain applications on quad-core CPUs do see a doubling of performance compared to dual-core, most applications experience only a small boost, even when the applications are multithreaded.

One of the problems is the software.

To this end, efforts are under way to prepare tommorrow's programmers to code for multi-core. "The full potential of multi-core based systems to deliver great performance and expanded usages is unleashed when software is designed to take advantage of the full capabilities".

These efforts are not limited to the U.S.

They go beyond multi-core to include multiprocessor and other forms of multithreaded systems.

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