Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Mar 2006 21:34 UTC
While the X86 world hops from one to two processing cores, startup Azul Systems plans to integrate 48 cores on its second-generation Vega chip, expected next year. The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC's 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors. The progress means that Azul's Compute Appliances will offer up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing.
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2006-01-01
ML as a family isn't purely functional because it doesn't enforce referential transparency. Purely functional programs do afford more flexibility in scheduling by making data dependencies explicit, but the job of automatically providing multiprocessor parallelism without annotations in a performant manner is nontrivial. It's even more difficult to implement for primarily lazy languages.