This week at LWN: Memory Part 8: Future technologies

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 1, 2007 12:48 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Ulrich Drepper
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In the preceding sections about multi-processor handling we have seen that significant performance problems must be expected if the number of CPUs or cores is scaled up. But this scaling-up is exactly what has to be expected in the future. Processors will get more and more cores, and programs must be ever more parallel to take advantage of the increased potential of the CPU, since single-core performance will not rise as quickly as it used to.

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