Comments on: Microsoft, Intel to sponsor multicore development research

Concerned with the difficulty of programming for multicore chips, Microsoft and Intel will sponsor a lab to build frameworks for writing parallel software.

[eightwings]

Nightmare on Core Street

One day soon the computer industry will wake up from its stupor and realize that, 150 years after Charles Babbage came up with his idea of a general purpose sequential computer, it is time to move on and change to a new model. The industry will be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. See the link below for more on why the industry's current thread-based multicore stategy is doomed to failure:

http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/nightmare-on-core-street.html

[Penguinisto]

Heh - Linux has been doing this already for awhile now ;)

...what? I suspect that OSX is working on it as we speak too.

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