Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores

An anonymous reader writes "There is interesting new research coming out of MIT which suggests current operating systems are struggling with the addition of more cores to the CPU. It appears that the problem, which affects the available memory in a chip when multiple cores are working on the same chunks of data, is getting worse and may be hitting a peak somewhere in the neighborhood of 48 cores, when entirely new operating systems will be needed, the report says. Luckily, we aren't anywhere near 48 cores and there is some time left to come up with a new Linux (Windows?)."

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Re:Original Source and Actual Paper

[poetmatt]

toot your own horn much?

way to link your own article, which I will avoid now.

Re:Original Source and Actual Paper

[Profane MuthaFucka]

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Who cares. We want ass jokes.