Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2009
There is a recent paper outlining how to take advantage of multi-core in a SAS environment- excerpt from paper and link below:
The computer industry has been rapidly transitioning from CPUs (chips) with a single processing core to CPUs with dual-, quad- and multi-core configurations. This has changed traditional thinking of SMP servers and has propagated [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Programming on Feb 1st, 2009
Acumem provide intelligent performance optimization software for single- and multi-core environments. They have now announced full support for AMD’s new quad-core AMD Opteron™ processors from their Acumem ThreadSpotter and Acumem SlowSpotter™ performance optimization tools. Acumem’s proposition is that it allows programmers of multi-core or multi-threaded systems to fully utilize the performance of their system in a [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 1st, 2009
Intel has plans to talk about their eight-core Xeon processor in San Francisco at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference next month. This will be the first insight into Intel’s first eight-core chip. The processor may well be the Nehalem EP processor,which is designed for dual-socket servers and workstations.
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