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Microsoft says multicores need software threading

By Derek Sooman

On October 27, 2005, 6:14 PM

According to Microsoft, massively multicore CPUs need massively multicore aware software and tools, or you wind up with something that does not go very far, Microsoft has said. Seemingly, single threaded software is going to benefit poorly from multicore. Things are not so bad on the server side, which will benefit, but desktop users are going to have to use specially written code to see benefit.

On the server side, no problem. If you have 1000 people hitting your web server and can dedicate a core to each, things will positively fly. If you have a game that has a single critical thread, you are going to get some pretty lame frames d00d.

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  1. October 27, 2005 11:29 PM
    fiziks said:
    d00d... hahahahaha.. techspot you never cease to amaze
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  2. October 27, 2005 11:51 PM
    fiziks said:
    If you have 1000 people hitting your web server and can dedicate a core to each... i don't understand
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  3. October 27, 2005 11:51 PM
    fiziks said:
    what ever happened to caleco vision
    Reply
  4. October 28, 2005 1:51 AM
    phantasm66 said:
    [b]Originally posted by fiziks:[/b][quote]If you have 1000 people hitting your web server and can dedicate a core to each... i don't understand[/quote]Hey, that's a quote from the article, not what I said.
    Reply
  5. October 28, 2005 2:42 PM
    fiziks said:
    nevermind i understand
    Reply
  6. October 28, 2005 2:46 PM
    fiziks said:
    i just don't understand why they were talking about personal gaming and web servers in the same paragraph
    Reply

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