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Panic in Multicore Land

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:Panic in multi-core land by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Way to waste your chance at joining the GNAA

  2. Re:Panic in multi-core land by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    masturbating to Tay Zonday youtube videos still gets you in.

  3. mod 04 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that he documents unlees you can work

  4. Re:he is right, but it depends on the application by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi David,

    I looked at your thesis. Could you explain something? Why is it that so many computer science publications from the Netherlands are written in English? Is it because English is commonly spoken in universities there, or is it just that English is the standard language for computer science publications?