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 ...

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Many engineers get sweaty palms and high blood pressure when faced with a project that requires a multicore processor. Developing software might require mastering a new operating system that can ...

Multicore processors are adding a new dimension of performance to the traditional realm of embedded software design. To take advantage of multicore processors, developers must learn the ins and outs ...

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With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

Multicore processors are solidly mainstream these days, with five upcoming multicore designs showcased by their creators on the first day of the Fall Processor Forum. But many software developers are ...

As multicore processing architectures grow in popularity, suppliers are rolling out solutions to help engineers program the new breed of devices. PolyCore Software is offering a new version of its ...

With the number of on-chip processors set to explode, software-development issues loom for design teams. Yet D&V methodologies may evolve to avert any stumbling over parallelism. Looking back over the ...

Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in servers equipped with quad-core processors. After all, he figured, having more cores means a more ...

Pros and cons of using a hypervisor. Pros and cons of multicore frameworks. Today’s multicore system-on-chip (SoC) hardware offers the promise of being able to pack more into your embedded project ...