Keeping that Multicore occupied.




Pheuque wrote:

The problem is, no one knows how to program for these multicore
systems like this.

With even a 20Mhz 8/16bit CPU there's enough housekeeping
chores to keep the system busy, but with 8 3Ghz processors
you start to run out of stuff to assign them to.

Unless you change your basic paradigm...

I run multiple VMWare virtual machines (DOS, Linux, BSD,
Windows 98, 2K, XP, and Vista). Autocad gets it's own
Win2K OS. InterNet explorer gets it's own XP OS.
Open Office gets it's own Linux OS.

I am doing this on a quad-core Core Duo that fits in my
briefcase and on a large 8-CPU Xeon rackmount system.

And right next to the rackmount is my good old C128.




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