Panic in Multicore Land · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 10, 2008 @11:30PM from the multi-cores-no-waiting dept.

MOBE2001 writes "There is widespread disagreement among experts on how best to design and program multicore processors, according to the EE Times. Some, like senior AMD fellow, Chuck Moore, believe that the industry should move to a new model based on a multiplicity of cores optimized for various tasks. Others disagree on the ground that heterogeneous processors would be too hard to program. The only emerging consensus seems to be that multicore computing is facing a major crisis. In a recent EE Times article titled 'Multicore puts screws to parallel-programming models', AMD's Chuck Moore is reported to have said that 'the industry is in a little bit of a panic about how to program multicore processors, especially heterogeneous ones.'"

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Re:Should Mimick The Brain by curmudgeon99 · 2008-03-11 00:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ass clown.

I was making a serious point. While the brain is not perfect--which one would expect from something that was not designed but evolved--it is the best game in town. I think it's foolish to try to replicate the trial and error development of a million years. I think we have a great model before us in the brain and it only makes sense to emulate it.