You add 48 cores and whaddaya get??
another day older and a blue screen of death
Saint Peter don’tcha call me ‘Cause-
I can’t go... my operating system has done hit a wall.
Only 48? Dang, I was hoping to get to 96.
Is this thread about that new Windows 7 POS?
I just blew $1200 on two laptops that won’t run ANY of my XP radio software programs?
Geezzeee…what are we really complaining about here.
I’ve been using Core2Quads, i3 and i5s with 64bit Win7 for some time now and they just rip right through everything I can throw at them; and i7s are even faster. Maybe they should focus on perfecting multi-distributed branch processing; although energy and heat are key issues.
UNIX operating systems already have advanced beyond these limits.
Sun’s Solaris crossed this barrier 13 years ago, scaling to 64 cores. By 2004, it was scaling to 144 cores. Since 2008 it is was scaling to 256 cores 512 threads. Today IBM’s AIX is scaling to 256 cores and 1024 threads.
The memory management system for Solaris was changed to address very large memory with Solaris 8 in 2000. The multithreading model was changed to address large core counts with Solaris 9 in 2002.
AIX added some very strong reliability features needed for large core counts and large memory to AIX 5.3 in 2004. Sun added similar reliability features for large core counts and large memory to Solaris 10 in 2005.
What is really needed from this point forward are transactional memory management, preferably in hardware, faster cache coherency mechanisms, and perhaps a move from NUMA memory allocation to COMA memory systems.
