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Cavium OCTEON-II

Cavium today has announced the availability of OCTEON II, their next generation multi-multi (aka many-) core processor with advanced acceleration features and Wind River has...

16 years 2 months ago

POWERVR goes MP

I was just reading up on the news that Imagination Technologies has launched a new generation of their architecture that drives POWERVR. What's POWERVR, you ask? It's a good...

16 years 2 months ago

What is a 'BareMetal' Hypervisor?

A good discussion on Virtualization Review on whether KVM is a Bare-Metal Hypervisor . A Bare-Metal hypervisor is also traditionally referred to as a Type 1 hypervisor, it is a...

16 years 3 months ago

Papers, Expos and Road Shows

Spring is always a busy time from a marketing perspective. Now, I live in Ottawa, and spring is certainly not here yet, snow and ice is still on the ground and there are certainly...

16 years 3 months ago

An ARM on Family Day

It’s “Family Day” here in Ontario, Canada, and while my one son is over at his buddy’s house and my other son is watching game trailers and my wife is out for lunch with the girls...

16 years 4 months ago

Multicore Is Closer Than You Think

People are no longer surprised to see a multicore processor in a laptop. In fact, some quad core laptops have already been announced. How about your trusted cell/smart phone then...

16 years 4 months ago

Sequential versus Parallel

One of the questions I have been wrestling with is how to best demonstrate capabilities related to multicore and virtualization. Demonstrations involving booting, restarting a core...

16 years 4 months ago

Multicore Means Communication

Found this blog post today, which is related to my post from yesterday . Communication in multicore is crucial. In a single core world you can communicate through function calling...

16 years 4 months ago

Software Not Keeping Up With Multicore

I ran into this article by Gartner about software not keeping up with multicore . Multicore started slow with 2 and 4 cores, now up to 32 cores in servers and up to 1024 cores per...

16 years 4 months ago

Which is better: AMP or SMP?

This is an argument that will never end, much like C vs C++, VI vs Emacs and Windows vs Mac OS vs Linux. There is no right answer to any of these questions, well, nothing better...

16 years 4 months ago