More on Multi-core

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 16, 2010 2:06 AM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Douglas Eadline, Ph.D.
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A few weeks back, I discussed the possibility of cell phone clusters. While cell phone processors continue to get faster, there are other issues that make them a poor platform for traditional HPC. As I mentioned, there are other “crowd sourcing” possibilities that may have some interesting applications for clusters of smart phones. Recently, Samsung announced the first dual core smart phone using the ARM Cortex-A9 Processor. The Cortex-A9 used by Samsung runs at 1 GHz. For an old timer like myself, that is amazing. My first cluster used 450MHz dual core processors.

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