Multi Core
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Microsoft eyes multicore boost from Windows 7
News New operating system should be able to make better use of modern multicore chips--in part through changes to adapt Windows to big servers.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Microsoft Corp., Parallel Pattern Library, Tool, Microsoft Windows 7
Apple bashes Windows 7, talks Snow Leopard
News At Worldwide Developers Conference 2009, Apple's Bertrand Serlet takes a few swipes at the competition and talks about next version of Mac OS X.
Tags: Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Multi-core, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Server, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows
Developers get boost for multicore apps
News Chip giant Intel unveils a suite of new tools that aims to help developers engage in parallel coding, for a future where every machine is multicore.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Tool, Quad-core, Developer, 3D, Environment, software, processor
Multicore CPUs drive change
News The rise of multi-core technology demands people with the right skills around open source and multi-threaded programming.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Components, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Open Source, Ubuntu, Environment, phone, software, processor
Second Firefox 3.1 beta due 'very shortly'
News One big change in the 3.1b2 is the addition of Web workers that lets the browser process tasks in the background, thus enabling multicore computers a better way to use their processors' abilities.
Tags: Web browsers, Domain names, Web sites, Apple Inc., Multi-core, Web Browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Beta, Mozilla Firefox
Google hopes to remake programming with Go
News A Unix co-creator is among those behind a language Google hopes will speed computers and programming. Now, Go becomes open source software.
Tags: Open source, Programming languages, Google Inc., Multi-core, compiler, C, Ken Thompson, software, Web Browser, Programmer
IBM launches System S stream computing
News System S is a business analytics tool, built following five years of research into the real-time analysis of large amounts of unstructured business or scientific data.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, IBM Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Data, Cell, Hardware, software, biomedical
Gartner: Multicore chips leave software trailing
News The growth of multicore processors is too fast for software, which struggles to use the technology effectively, research firm says.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Business applications, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Multi-core, Chip, Gartner Inc., operating system, Ferrari
Another team joins race to advance chip software
News Stanford University joins race to advance chip software to increase performance per watt.
Tags: Processors, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Multi-core, Chip, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, processor, professor, Stanford University
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News ARM is preparing new enterprise partnerships as its Cortex-A9 processor goes fast and multicore, pitting it against Intel's x86 and IBM's PowerPC chips.
Tags: Processors, ARM, Intel Corp., Chip, Dual-core, JIT, performance, processor, high-performance, Processors
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip.
Tags: Virtualization, Intel Corp., Hypervisor, operating system, Wind River Systems Inc., device manufacturer, processor, Virtualization, car, multi-core processor
Thai group to implement cloud computing
News The technology will enable the Charoen Pokphand Group to build ready-to-use IT services for use among its subsidiaries.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Infrastructure/architecture management, Web 2.0, SOA, Cloud Computing, On-demand, BPM, CP Group, Poonlab, software
Multi-core CPUs in mobiles to come
News Japan’s NEC and ARM are teaming up to design chips that will contain two or more processing cores for use in mobile devices.
US university sues Intel for patent infringement
News A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison claims Intel's Core 2 Duo infringes on technology they developed in the late 1990s, and they plan on badgering Intel into court.
Tags: Processors, Patents
Dual-core servers
Reviews Multi-core processors deliver many benefits, including much-improved performance per watt, over single-core designs. We examine three dual-core servers from the leading vendors to see what this technology can do for your business.
