Monday, February 19, 2007

768 cores ought to be enough for anybody

768 cores ought to be enough for anybody by ZDNet's Ed Burnette -- While Intel struggles to get their 80-core processor to work, a company you've probably never heard of has been quietly shipping systems with hundreds of cores. Last year at JavaOne I attended a presentation by Cliff Click of Azul Systems on scaling up an application that used to take weeks to run so that it could finish in minutes. After the Intel announcement, I tracked down Cliff to get his thoughts on multicore hardware and software.

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