MIT’s Swarm chip architecture boosts multi-core CPUs
For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, but also makes it much trickier to write programs that take full advantage of their hardware.
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CrazyNeutrino said:
For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, but also makes it much trickier to write programs that take full advantage of their hardware.
mollwollfumble said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, but also makes it much trickier to write programs that take full advantage of their hardware.
Yes. It’s a total pain that I can’t run my computer at more than 25% of the theoretical maximum speed because no software exists that will let me use the remaining 75%.
I was thinking of putting an Intel Core Extreme Edition CPU when I build a gaming PC, it has 10 cores, I wonder if its worth it, I don’t want to CPU bottlenecking the GPU
mollwollfumble said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
For nearly 10 years, computer processors have been getting faster by using multiple cores rather than raising their individual speeds. This measure makes our PCs and smartphones more power-efficient, but also makes it much trickier to write programs that take full advantage of their hardware.
Yes. It’s a total pain that I can’t run my computer at more than 25% of the theoretical maximum speed because no software exists that will let me use the remaining 75%.
Well it does.
It’s called Fortran :)
But it’s a pain in the butt to use, even for someone who enjoys this stuff :(