Intel on Tuesday said it would release this week eight technical papers describing key findings from the company's work on future programmable multicore architectures. The papers will be published in the Intel Technical Journal and will provide details on how the company expects future microprocessors with simplified parallel programming models to evolve.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Unfortunately like most technology its going to take software companies years before they utilise the featuers; I mean, look how long it took them to move to 32bit, heck, Window Vista was in beta for 5 years and there are software titles still not compatible with it.
Unfortunately that is the one problem with the IT world - more concerned about private jets and perks of the job rather than investing the money in the long term health of the company.
Member since:2006-08-06
As I understand it, a lot of work is being done in the compiler and the underlying OS to make HTM support *transparent* to the application and userbase.
This isn't something that's just been thought of recently, it's been in the works (skunkworks, of course!) for years
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=hybrid+transactional+...
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2006-03-01
Rock will support transactional memory? That is really great news. Something like transactional memory is the best chance to make the power of massively multicore CPUs available to mere mortals.