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Code Parallel or Die, Part 2

by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008

It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more

• Tuesday, April 15, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Frank Chism

Code Parallel or Die

by Frank Chism on April 14, 2008

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” - Luke in “Cool Hand Luke” A fist full of cores in a server rich environment. If you haven’t noticed that the world has changed, you had better wake up and smell the coffee. The era of killer apps written... more

• Monday, April 14, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Frank Chism

What Lies Beneath: Setting up underlying HPC tools

by kishi on December 21, 2006

After reading thru the previous blogs on HPC, someone might ask “What are some of the core components of HPC ?”. After all, once you’ve seen the outside of a Maserati or a Pantera DeTomaso, you’re not going to be satisfied just by ogling at it. Even after a test drive, the engineer in you will want to pop the hood and see what’s inside. Taking a similar approach let’s uncover some underlying HPC technologies... more

• Thursday, December 21, 2006
• in: Server Center
• kishi