Supercharging Multi-Core Designs

“Multi-core is a disruptive technology — and I mean that in a good way — because it’s only when you have disruption of the status quo that new innovations can affect technology with revolutionary advances,” says David A. Bader, executive director of high-performance computing at Georgia Tech. Software developers who optimize their code for this groundbreaking technology can deliver new levels of functionality more cost-effectively. However, to achieve this optimization they’ll need to tap into a new set of resources. “Making the most of multi-core systems will require new tools, new algorithms and new ways of looking at programming,” says Bader. Advanced visual software tools are helping developers balance workload among all cores and consolidate more features and horsepower within a smaller form factor.

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