The Future of Windows Is Manycore-Multicore
Microsoft has little say in the matter, as does the entire ecosystem of software developers that will have to step up their game and fall in line with the evolution of hardware, further and further into the territory of parallel computing.
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9.8.2008 Microsofts manycore strategy
The post on Apple’s Grand Central multicore support in OS X.vi had some commenters claiming that Microsoft had already solved the multicore software problem. Far from it.
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25.6.2008 Windows 7 on multicore: How much faster?
San Francisco - Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is receiving raves in its pre-release testing.
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20.10.2009 Ballmer: Microsoft must be ‘multicore’ to survive
Microsoft CEO says the company must be multicore, or be successful in multiple markets, to grow.
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15.8.2006 MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems.
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23.8.2007 Download Windows 7 RTM Power Saving Boost Update for AMD Multicore CPUs
Microsoft has made available for download an update designed to boost power-saving capabilities for the latest Windows client and server releases.
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12.10.2009Asia hungry for multicore processors
Virtualisation and flexibility are two of the key factors driving demand for multicore chips in the Asia Pacific region.
John
Fruehe, worldwide business development manager for AMD's server and workstation division, said last week that business growth requires companies to
be nimble.
"They have to be able to change and grow quickly in order to keep up with the market, and so, having multicore
make it much easier because the applications can scale to meet the needs ," he added.
Businesses
on a tight budget and running multiple applications on a single server will also benefit "because you don't have the luxury of buying different
servers", Fruehe said...
winbeta.org - 28.08.2007
To save power, embedded tries multicore
Like their
microprocessor-making cousins
in the x86-based PC world,
suppliers of high-end embedded
processors appear to be
raising the white flag in the
breakneck megahertz race.
Instead of focusing on raw
performance alone, suppliers
are now racing to develop a
range of 32- and 64-bit
multicore solutions that claim
to address a potential power
crisis in the high-end
embedded space.
In
the latest developments in the
emerging sector, Cavium
Networks Inc. (Mountain View,
Calif.) and Freescale
Semiconductor Inc. (Austin,
Texas) on Monday (June 25) are
scheduled to separately
introduce major multicore
processor lines for high-end
embedded applications. The
products provide a sneak
preview of next-generation
multicore architectures--and
the challenges--in the
networking, storage, wireless
and other embedded markets.
winbeta.org - 25.06.2007
Multicore chips leave software trailing, warns Gartner
Gartner sounded a warning on Wednesday about the impact on software of the rapid growth of multicore chips and the number of threads each processor
can handle.
In a research note, the analysts argued that software is struggling to keep pace with the fast growth of multicore
processors, first from two and four cores per processor, and now to eight and even 32 cores in high-end servers. With 32 processors per socket already
shipping, four years from now machines could host 1,024 processors, Gartner said.
winbeta.org - 29.01.2009
Intel, Microsoft, Uncle Sam sink big money into multicore
"With multicore it's like we are throwing this Hail Mary pass down the field and now we have to run down there as fast as we can to see if we can
catch it." Thus spake RISC pioneer and Transmeta cofounder David Ditzel, paraphrasing fellow RISC guru David Patterson to a panel on the multicore
future at the recent International Solid State Circuits Conference. That's a pretty good summary of where the software folks are at with the rapidly
increasing core and thread counts that are coming out of the hardware side of the computing industry, which is why two recently announced research
institutes are hoping to cook up a steroid injection that will boost the metaphorical runner's speed.
First up is today's
announcement of a collaboration between Oakridge and Sandia national laboratories to found a new Institute for Advanced Architectures. The IAA will
work on developing the software and hardware for the era of so-called "exascale" computing. Sandia's ASCI Red brought us into the teraflop era a
decade ago, and the Japanese recently brought us into the petaflop era, which is why it's time to start mapping out the massively multicore exaflop
terrain.
winbeta.org - 23.02.2008
Memory goes multicore
In the 21st century, instead of depending on continually shrinking design rules, microprocessor makers are harnessing multiple cores for parallel
execution. Memory chip architectures, however, have not kept up, according to a cryptographer who claims to have created a memory chip architecture
for the 21st centuryone that matches multicore microprocessors with parallel, concurrent access to multiple memory chips.
"My
design borrows extensively from today's modern multicore CPUs," said Joseph Ashwood, an independent security cryptanalyst and design consultant
residing in Gilroy, Calif. Ashwood was lead cryptanalyst for Arcot Systems in Santa Clara, Calif., before going independent in 2001. "As far as
concurrency goes, my memory architecture shares some features with Fibre Channel."
winbeta.org - 15.01.2008
Microsofts new multicore-computing guru speaks out
Supercomputing expert Dan Reed, who saw the birth of the Web browser at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is joining Microsoft Research
as director of scalable and multicore computing. This serious college-basketball fan is tearing himself away from the hoops heartland surrounding
North Carolinas Research Triangle to lead Microsofts efforts in multicore technology and next-generation data centers.
śI
watched Mosaic come up out of the ground and I watched my students go off to start-ups, and I promised myself that if the surf was up again that I was
going to grab my board and get in the water,ť Reed told Network World Senior Editor John Fontana during a chat about his move from academia and what
Reed says could be a coming revolution that rivals the development of the Web.
winbeta.org - 20.11.2007
Microsoft Ponders Windows
Successor
With Vista
not even remotely close to
being in the shops yet, the
software outfit Microsoft is
talking about what will
replace it. Speaking to The
Venture Forum conference,
Bryan Barnett, a manager for
external research programmes
in the Microsoft Research
group, said that one of the
areas being looked at was how
to better use multicore
processors.
He
said that it was important to
take full advantage of the
processing power that those
multicore architectures
potentially make available. He
said that this requires
operating systems and
development tools that don't
exist today. While VoleWare
does run on multicore
processors, it is not fully
optimised for them, he
admitted.
Barnett said there is not
even a time table for a
Windows successor right now.
Early work
includes five or six projects
being undertaken in the Vole
Hill labs. He said that
finding a replacement for
Vista was going to be
incredibly hard work, despite
all the resources Vole had at
its disposal.
jcxp.net - 29.06.2006
AMD gives boost to software aimed at multicore chips
Software developers aiming to
tweak their applications for
multicore microprocessors have
gained a boost from Advanced
Micro Devices at a Sunnyvale,
California developer center
packed with computers running
on multicore AMD
microprocessors, including the
upcoming Barcelona quad-core.
The upgrades to the center,
which AMD said will continue,
are aimed at helping software
developers improve the speed
and capabilities of software
running on servers, laptops,
and desktops armed with
multicore microprocessors. For
users, such improvements mean
the software they buy for
multicore computers will run
at peak performance, instead
of using just a portion of the
processing power of the chips.
The AMD Developer
Center is open to all, from
financial services companies
using stock trading software,
to media companies running
rendering applications, and
individual developers
interested in improving the
performance of applications
aimed at computers with
multi-core microprocessors,
the company said. Later in the
second quarter, the center
will add computers with AMD's
latest multicore
microprocessor, the quad-core
AMD Opteron processor
code-named Barcelona, the
company said in a statement
Tuesday.
neowin.net - 15.05.2007
Multicore, clouds, social nets top disruptive list
Multicore processors, cloud computing, user interfaces, social networks/social software, and Web mashups top a list of 10 "disruptive
technologies'' set to reshape the IT landscape between 2008 and 2012, according to Gartner analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch.
The remaining five are ubiquitous computing, contextual computing, augmented reality, semantics, and virtualization.
winbeta.org - 09.04.2008
Sun Offers 60-day Niagara
Server Trial
Multicore, multithreaded chip
powers small-business servers...
pcworld.com - 20.12.2005
Tahiti: Microsofts ultimate many-core destination
Microsoft has shared bits and pieces about its plans to target multicore/many-core architectures, but there is much the company still hasnt shared
publicly.
According to sources, Microsoft is working on a full set of many-core deliverables everything from a new,
many-core-optimized operating system, to a new concurrency runtime, to a full set of multicore/many-core development tools. Other targeted
deliverables allegedly include parallel domain-specific libraries and a new, lightweight transaction model.
winbeta.org - 15.07.2008
Sun Unveils Next Niagara
Servers
First multicore Sun Fire is
expected to debut, but some
won't ship for months...
pcworld.com - 07.12.2005
Dell Unveils Fast Multicore
Systems
PowerEdge servers, Precision
workstations will ship this
fall powered by dual-core
Intel Xeon chips...
pcworld.com - 27.09.2005
AMD Plans Four-Core Opterons
by 2007
Chip maker execs tell plans
for multicore systems,
Hypertransport technology...
pcworld.com - 16.11.2005
AMD Sees Future in Accelerated Computing
When it comes to the future of multicore processing, Advanced Micro Devices is looking far beyond adding more and more transistors to each new
generation of chips.
With software development lagging behind the advances in multicore processing, Chuck Moore, an AMD Senior Fellow, said the company
has begun exploring new ways that other pieces of hardwareor acceleratorscan be combined with traditional CPUs to increase the performance of software
applications, while allowing these applications to take full advantage of the new processing technology.
Moore presented his
views on developing multicore technology at a panel discussion Feb. 6 at the 2008 International Solid State
Circuits Conference here, which also included comments from other top engineers from such chip makers as Sun Microsystems and Intel.
winbeta.org - 07.02.2008
Google to discontinue PeakStream products
While Google is declining to
be specific about plans for
its newly acquired PeakStream
technology, a Google
representative confirmed
Wednesday that PeakStream's
product line will no longer be
commercially available.
Google acquired PeakStream
on Tuesday. The
representative, who asked to
not be named in this article,
said Google believes
PeakStream's broad technical
expertise can help build
products and features to
benefit Google users. The
future, Google believes, is in
the ability to scale
high-performance applications
that can work on multicore
processors.
Founded
by former Sun Microsystems and
VMware officials, PeakStream
launched its PeakStream
Platform in 2006, featuring an
application server and
developer tools for
programming multicore
processors, graphics processor
units, and cell processors.
The technology was aimed at
markets such as oil and gas
exploration, financial
services, and life sciences. ..
winbeta.org - 07.06.2007
Intel open sources multicore development tool
Intel on Tuesday is scheduled
to release the source code to
a development tool for writing
applications to run on
multicore chips.
The
company released Threading
Building Blocks last August, a
C++ template designed to
simplify the job of writing
applications that take
advantage of processors with
multiple cores, or processing
units.
During the
last year, Intel found that
customers and potential
customers wanted greater
platform support and
assurances that the toolset
would be around for a long
time, said James Reinders, the
director of Intel's software
development products.
To address these concerns,
Intel has decided to release
the tool under the General
Public License version 2 with
runtime exception. With the
runtime exception, commercial
software can choose to embed
it in their own closed-source
products, Reinders said. ..
winbeta.org - 24.07.2007
Are we actually ready for the multicore and virtualization era?
The problem before hardware and software vendors alike, a panel of leading industry executives discovered yesterday, is getting their own adopters to
understand and embrace the technology they're already buying today...
betanews.com - 05.03.2008
Microsoft trying to make sense of multicore
From a marketing perspective, multicore processors are an easy sell. Two brains are better than one. Four brains are better than two. You get the
idea.
The challenge is that a whole lot of computer software has been designed to take advantage of ever-faster brains, not a computer
packed full of them. It's a particular challenge for desktop and mobile computers. On the server and supercomputing side, the notion of parallel
computing has been around for some time.
winbeta.org - 19.01.2008
Microsoft: Multicore Chips Are
Changing PC Software Design
The 'free lunch' for
software developers is over,
Microsoft executive says...
pcworld.com - 27.10.2005
