Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Aug 2007 17:24 UTC, submitted by burnttoy
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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RE[4]: Tired of pre-announcements
by jmcp on Fri 17th Aug 2007 01:27
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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+...
RE[5]: Tired of pre-announcements
by Wes Felter on Fri 17th Aug 2007 16:31
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Member since:2005-11-15
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.
But AFAIK apps will still have to have begin_transaction() and end_transaction() in the code. Transactional memory makes multithreaded programming easier, but it doesn't create the threads for you.
RE[4]: Tired of pre-announcements
by horsnell on Fri 17th Aug 2007 03:24
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Member since:2006-04-14
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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.